Category: Healthcare Data Registry

American Joint Replacement Registry (AJRR) is a not-for-profit organization, created in partnership with the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS) in 2009 to create a national center for primary and revision hip and knee replacement data collection.

Tracking outcomes is a top priority for spine surgeons. The neurosurgical community has continued to push for the collection of outcomes through a national data registry formerly known as the National Neurosurgery Quality and Outcomes Database (N²QOD). It’s now referred to as the Quality Outcomes Database (QOD).

MARCQI is a Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) and Blue Care Network supported group that began in 2012. Dedicated to improving the quality of care for patients undergoing hip and knee replacement surgery in Michigan, MARCQI has built a statewide hip and knee replacement data registry for hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers.

From national registries such as the AJRR, to private domestic registries like MOON, there are many orthopedic clinical data registries in the United States.

Clinical data registries prospectively gather data from a group of patients with a common diagnosis or treatment to learn how to better care for patients. In view of the increasing emphasis on demonstrating both the clinical effectiveness and the economic value of treatments, registries can be powerful and robust vehicles for improving the overall delivery of care, practice improvement, and physician reimbursement. Or as we like to say at CODE “collecting outcome data is for the good of patients, the good of the practice, and the good of the public’.

There’s roughly 20,000 ACL reconstruction surgeries performed each year. Created in 2002, the Multicenter Orthopaedic Outcomes Network (MOON) main goal is to enroll and follow a certain population of patients who have undergone anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction surgery.

With the number of total joint arthroplasties (TJAs) and associated costs growing annually, a new emphasis on improving the ‘‘value’’ of TJA has emerged. To achieve this goal, surgeons must continue to improve functional and pain-related outcomes after TJA, while reducing the numbers of postoperative complications and poor clinical results. Institutional and private practice registries have been developed to assist in in this pursuit. These registries have collected a wide spectrum of data points from basic Level I to IV data.