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AAOS announces launch of new Shoulder and Elbow Registry
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The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons announced it has launched a Shoulder and Elbow Registry to collect data on total shoulder and elbow procedures in the United States.
“In addition to reducing the overall public cost, joint registries demonstrate up to a 50% reduction in revision rates after registry initiation and identification of best practices,” Gerald R. Williams Jr., MD, chair of the Shoulder and Elbow Registry Steering Committee and Fellow of the AAOS, said in a press release. “There are more than 750,000 total shoulder arthroplasty, rotator cuff repair and total elbow arthroplasty surgeries performed in the United States each year. An evidence-based registry, like the Shoulder and Elbow Registry, is a cost-effective way to benchmark risk-adjusted data and provide greater context to patient outcomes comparisons. Identifying improvements needs can potentially mitigate surgical revisions which could lead to millions of dollars in stakeholder savings annually.”
Developed in conjunction with representatives from the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons, the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine and the Arthroscopy Association of North America, the Shoulder and Elbow Registry will collect total shoulder arthroplasty procedure data at launch and expand to include rotator cuff repair and total elbow arthroplasty procedure data in 2019. It will be the second in a series of anatomical registries developed to establish survivorship curves, track revisions and improve quality of care for all patients as part of the AAOS Registry Program, according to the release.
“In 1917, American shoulder surgery pioneer E.A. Codman challenged that patients should be followed long enough to determine if treatments proved successful. More than 100 years later, the AAOS and the [American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons] ASES are taking a huge step toward that goal,” Grant E. Garrigues, MD, a Fellow of the AAOS, said in the release. “Every ASES member must take up this charge and truly follow our shoulder patients’ outcomes, pool this data with other surgeons and determine the optimal treatments for our patients. This registry is a powerful tool to make this possible. This type of data registry is the key to improving patient outcomes and defining best practices.”
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