A stem cell provider registry program will improve the quality of treatments, wrote Fabio Rossi, MD, PhD, and Judy Illes, PhD, in an op-ed in the Vancouver Sun.
The proposed registry would focus on the most common treatments, such as musculoskeletal health solutions.
To participate in the registry, clinics would have to gain patients'informed consent to share treatment and follow-up data for research purposes. The data could be linked to administrative databases to provide follow-up on safety and effectiveness.
Dr. Rossi is a medical genetics professor and the scientific director of BC Regenerative Medicine Network at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Dr. Illes is a neurology professor and the Canada Research Chair in Neuroethics at UBC.