Corey Scholes, EBM Analytics, cscholes@ebma.com.au
The Arthroplasty Outcomes in Regional Australia (AORA) registry is a clinical quality registry (self-reported) run on behalf of select orthopaedic surgeons in private practice in Grafton, NSW. This registry currently collects clinical history, treatment characteristics, and functional and patient-reported outcomes from patients undergoing treatment for knee or hip osteoarthritis. As the participants progress through the treatment pathway, their outcomes are assessed against pre-determined ‘failure to cure’ criteria, consisting of a combination of validated outcome measures and clinically relevant improvement thresholds (eg. minimum clinically important differences). The overall aim of the registry is to evaluate the current standard of care, and to inform evidence-based changes in clinical practice.
- Feedback to contributing clinicians
- Shared with other clinicians
- Reported in Annual Report
- Governance and steering committee comprised of various stakeholders (both clinicians and non-clinicians) receives audit report and discusses findings on a quarterly basis
- Preoperative health questionnaire (self-developed)
- Veterans Rand-12 General Health Survey
- Musculoskeletal Outcomes Data Evaluation and Management System (MODEMs) preoperative expectations scale
- Acute recovery questionnaire (self-developed)
- MODEMs postoperative expectations met scale; Postoperative satisfaction
- Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Score (KOOS)-12
- Hip disability and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (HOOS)-12
Nil
New South Wales
- Specialist Orthopaedic Centre, Grafton
Nil