Electronic Data Capture through Total Joint Replacement Registries

Electronic Data Capture through Total Joint Replacement Registries

The move toward adoption and implementation of electronic health records (EHR) provides an opportunity in the United States to use electronic clinical data (ECD) to better understand patient outcomes and to improve the quality and efficiency of medical care. Within the field of orthopedics, national joint replacement registries have been shown in other countries to improve clinical decision-mak...

Beyond joint implant registries: a patient-centered research consortium for comparative effectiveness in total joint replacement.

DESPITE THE PROVEN EFFECTIVENESS OF TOTAL joint replacement (TJR) surgery in relieving advanced knee and hip arthritis pain, TJR outcomes have come under intense public scrutiny in recent years. The 2010 recall of ASR metal-on-metal hip implants heightened awareness of the importance for implant safety surveillance for this high-cost and high-use procedure and exposed the need for a national sy...

Implementation of patient-reported outcome measures in U.S. Total joint replacement registries: rationale, status, and plans.

BACKGROUND In the U.S. and abroad, the use of patient-reported outcome measures to evaluate the impact of total joint replacement surgery on patient quality of life is increasingly common. Analyses of patient-reported outcomes have documented substantial pain relief and functional gain among the vast majority of patients managed with total joint replacement. In addition, postoperative patient-r...

Complications of total joint replacement

Anesthesia for total joint replacement.