ARTICLE SUMMARY:
As participation in clinical registries becomes an increasingly important part of US healthcare reform, the AJRR (American Joint Replacement Registry) is succeeding in building the first national orthopedics registry. The impact of its findings for manufacturers could be profound, if the track records of well-established registries in the UK and elsewhere are indicative.
Even as data registries have long flourished overseas and in other areas of surgery, decades of effort in the US to establish a national clinical registry for orthopedics have been fraught with false starts and dashed hopes.
