Table 1 Suggested timeline for development of a clinical registry

Pre-development Phase (0–6 months)

• Secure funding

• Finalise project plan

• Establish Steering Committee

Development phase (6–12 months)

• Finalise data set and data dictionary

• Web-database construction

• Establish contacts at 4–6 pilot hospitals

• Ethics submission at selected academic unit or central site and pilot sites

Implementation Phase (1 year onwards)

• Data collection commences at 4–6 pilot sites

• Identify additional sites for inclusion in the Registry

Expansion Phase (18 months onwards)

• Ethics submission at additional sites

• Data collection commences at additional sites

• Test and develop new or improved measures of outcome