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The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American) 84:S2-S20 (2002)
© 2002 The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.

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The Swedish Total Hip Replacement Register

Henrik Malchau, MD, PhD, Peter Herberts, MD, PhD, Thomas Eisler, MD, Göran Garellick, MD, PhD and Peter Söderman, MD, PhD

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   Epidemiology of Primary and Revision Total Hip Replacement
 
Introduction
The Swedish Total Hip Replacement Register was initiated in 1979. The mission of the Register is to improve the outcome of total hip replacement (THR) 1 . Information technology development has substantially facilitated the possibility of fulfilling this mission. During the past three years, almost all information exchange between the reporting units and the Register has been provided via the Internet. Feedback to and reports from the participating units are effected through a specific website (www.jru.orthop.gu.se).

The importance of the Register and its effect on quality improvement over time have been well documented 2-4 . The hypothesis for the project is that feedback of analyzed data stimulates the individual clinic to reflect and improve according to the principle of the good example. The clinical and socioeconomic effects of the past twenty years of Register work have been striking, and almost fifty quality registries have been started in different medical fields in Sweden . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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