The aim of this study was to perform the first population-based description of the epidemiological and health economic burden of fracture-related infection (FRI). This is a retrospective cohort study of operatively managed orthopaedic trauma patients from 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2016, performed in Queensland, Australia. Record linkage was used to develop a person-centric, population-based dataset incorporating routinely collected administrative, clinical, and health economic information. The FRI group consisted of patients with International Classification of Disease 10th Revision diagnosis codes for deep infection associated with an implanted device within two years following surgery, while all others were deemed not infected. Demographic and clinical variables, as well as healthcare utilization costs, were compared.Aims
Methods
The aim of this study was to determine whether patients with
metal-on-metal (MoM) arthroplasties of the hip have an increased
risk of cardiac failure compared with those with alternative types
of arthroplasties (non-MoM). A linkage study between the National Joint Registry, Hospital
Episodes Statistics and records of the Office for National Statistics
on deaths was undertaken. Patients who underwent elective total
hip arthroplasty between January 2003 and December 2014 with no
past history of cardiac failure were included and stratified as
having either a MoM (n = 53 529) or a non-MoM (n = 482 247) arthroplasty.
The primary outcome measure was the time to an admission to hospital
for cardiac failure or death. Analysis was carried out using data
from all patients and from those matched by propensity score.Aims
Patients and Methods
