American Joint Replacement Registry releases 2024 report on trends in arthroplasty
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Key takeaways:
- The American Joint Replacement Registry released its annual report on U.S. trends in hip and knee arthroplasty.
- Its database has surpassed 3.7 million arthroplasty procedures.
The American Joint Replacement Registry released its 2024 report on trends in arthroplasty, according to a presenter at the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons Annual Meeting.
The 11th annual report from the American Joint Replacement Registry (AJRR) was published by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons registry program.
“One of our primary quality improvement efforts has been to improve our data completeness. There is always a compromise between how much data you are getting and how complete it is,” James I. Huddleston III, MD, FAAOS, chair of the AJRR Steering Committee, said. “We have been in the midst of a soft launch of a new dataset that will hopefully become a hard launch in [the second quarter] of 2025. When that happens, we will no longer accept submissions to AJRR if it is not 100% complete, which is going to greatly enhance our data completeness.”
He added, “We are going to need help from surgeon champions to make sure that any errors in this are fixed and we can get as much data as possible.”
The 2024 report includes more than 3.7 million total hip and total knee arthroplasty procedures performed at 1,447 institutions in all 50 states and the District of Columbia between 2012 and 2013, according to a press release from the AAOS.
The report includes the latest insights into patient-reported outcome data, validated outcome measures, the role of ASCs, discharge trends and optimization, and navigated and robotic-assisted surgery.
Huddleston said that the new dashboard has been redesigned to be more user-friendly and will include a new quality improvement score card.
“We are shortly going to be sending you a risk-adjusted revision rate for the first time, which will be confidential and only sent to you, not to your institution,” Huddleston said.
He added that the AJRR will facilitate physicians’ ability to fulfill mandatory outpatient requirements, such as patient-reported outcome measure mandates.
In addition, he said the AJRR has worked to streamline external data requests, which has been reduced the turnaround time to 6 months.
“We are excited with where we are, but there is a lot more work to be done,” Huddleston concluded.
To read the full 2024 AJRR report please visit: https://connect.registryapps.net/2024-ajrr-annual-report.
Reference:
Huddleston JI, et al. American Joint Replacement Registry (AJRR) update. Presented at: American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons Annual Meeting; Nov. 7-10, 2024; Dallas.
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