National joint registries show differences in utilization of ankle replacements
Published results showed marked differences in the utilization of ankle replacement across six countries with national registries. For their study, Thomas A. Perry, BSc, PhD, and colleagues used aggregate data and summary statistics on ankle replacements from national joint replacement registries in Australia, Finland, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom between 1993 and 2019. Researchers extracted demographic data on patient age, sex and indications for primary ankle replacement from the annual recorded counts of procedures and obtained registry-level summary results on data completeness, counts of hospitals/units and health care providers performing ankle replacements annually and data collection processes. Researchers calculated the annual ankle replacement incidence for all diagnoses and by indication categories per 100,000 residential population for patients aged 18 years and older. Results showed New Zealand had the largest annual incidence with approximately ...