More than 95% completeness of reported procedures in the population-based Dutch Arthroplasty Register.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

A complete and correct national arthroplasty register is indispensable for the quality of arthroplasty outcome studies. We evaluated the coverage, completeness, and validity of the Dutch Arthroplasty Register (LROI) for hip and knee arthroplasty.

Patients and methods

The LROI is a nationwide population-based registry with information on joint arthroplasties in the Netherlands. Completeness of entered procedures was validated in 2 ways: (1) by comparison with the number of reimbursements for arthroplasty surgeries (Vektis database), and (2) by comparison with data from hospital information systems (HISs). The validity was examined by conducting checks on missing or incorrectly coded values in the LROI.

Results

The LROI contains over 300,000 hip a

SUBMITTER: van Steenbergen LN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4513607 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature