Background Clinical registries are powerful tools for collecting uniform data longitudinally,
thus making it possible to evaluate the outcome of patients affected by a specific pathology …

Aims The primary aim of this paper was to outline the processes involved in building the
Partners Arthroplasty Registry (PAR), established in April 2016 to capture baseline and …

Purpose Arthroplasty registries have an important role in improving outcomes in joint
surgery. As the demand for joint arthroplasty continues to increase, growing attention is …

Background In 1984, we developed a private practice joint replacement registry (JRR) to
prospectively follow patients undergoing THA and TKA to assess clinical and radiographic …

Medical devices (MD) registries are essentials to evaluate outcomes. They represent a key
tool to support market surveillance and vigilance, being critical to identify and characterize …

Purpose Institutional arthroplasty registries are very popular nowadays; however, very few
efforts have been made in order to standardize the information to be collected, thus limiting …

In 2015, there is nothing spectacular about registers. To collect information on the outcome
of treatments is as old as medicine itself. Registries merely took the concept several steps …

Over the last decade, the development and use of large databases has increased
exponentially within the field of orthopaedics in general and in the field of arthroplasty …

Background Arthroplasty registries are a relevant source of information for research and
quality improvement in patient care and its value depends on the quality of the recorded …

The International Consortium for Orthopaedic Registries is a multinational initiative
established by the United States Food and Drug Administration to develop a health data …