The North American Hip Arthroscopy Registry
A Quality Improvement Tool to Enhance Our Patients’ Outcomes and Advance The Field of Hip Preservation
Welcome.
HipSTR is a collaboration of North American Hip Arthroscopy Surgeons to establish the benchmarks for hip arthroscopy surgical outcomes and identify best practices in surgical technique to improve patient care.
HipSTR will enable hip arthroscopy surgeons to analyze their patients’ outcomes relative to a national average and identify factors contributing to optimal patient post surgical satisfaction. Program participants will work in partnership with practitioners across the US and Canada to identify best practices, quality improvement opportunities, and trends for continued research. Additionally, the program will help to define the overall value and efficacy of hip arthroscopy in general and for specific procedures. Success of new and recently developed techniques can be studied more quickly utilizing the power of collaboration amongst surgeons using this patient outcomes registry.
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Who enters the data?
Surgeons performing hip arthroscopic surgery will enter data as part of a quality assurance effort. Patients will then be contacted for information about their progress, ideally by e-mail and/or text, at regular intervals after the operation. Patient confidentiality is maintained throughout this process.
What happens to a patient's data?
Data collected for HipSTR is done via PatientIQ and may be used for quality improvement and medical research. This data will be anonymized to protect patient identities.
The system is fully secure, HIPAA-compliant, and data is stored in a HITRUST-certified cloud infrastructure.
Will patients benefit?
The data will be used to bring direct benefits to patients by:
Improving patient awareness of the outcomes of operations on the hip since results will be available in the public domain
Comparing the success rates of different operations on the hip
Identifying which patients would benefit from specific surgical technique
Identifying which surgical procedure brings benefit for specific diagnoses
Their surgeons will improve by being able to review their outcomes with these different procedures
What information will be available from HipSTR?
Annual Reports from HipSTR in the future will include the following:
• National average of PROMs by operation and/or diagnosis
• Further surgery based on selected procedure and/or diagnosis
• Outcome by Patient Reported Outcome Scores (PROMs data)
Surgeon Access (not published) from HipSTR will include:
• Participating Surgeon can access their personal outcomes based on operation and/or diagnosis
• Participating Surgeon can compare their personal patient outcomes with national averages by procedure and/or diagnosis