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.