Total Elbow Replacement in England: Analysis of National Joint Registry and Hospital Episode Statistics Data

Total Elbow Replacement in England: Analysis of National Joint Registry and Hospital Episode Statistics Data

The goal of this observational registry study is to provide detailed descriptions of the patients who are receiving primary total elbow replacement surgery in England. The main questions it aims to answer are:

• Who are receiving primary total elbow replacement surgery?
• Where and by whom is the total elbow replacement surgery is being performed?
• What the current surgical practices for total elbow replacement?

Pseudonymous data from the National Joint Registry NJR of all patients with total elbow replacement will be used.

Inclusion Criteria:

• All patients aged 18 to 100 years old with a primary TER on the National Joint Registry (NJR) elbow dataset from the start of data collection on the 1st of April 2012 to the 31st of December 2022 will be included.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients are excluded if they did not consent for their data to be used for research purposes, if it is impossible to trace them after surgery, if their ID numbers are invalid, or if the surgery was not performed in England.
• Unconfirmed procedures and procedures with inconsistent operative patterns (i.e. a sequence of operations where the primary operation is not the first operation in the sequence or where there are multiple primary operations recorded for the same joint) will be excluded from the analyses.