Alberta Research Team's Review and Synthesis of the Literature on Hip Resurfacing Safety among Most Comprehensive Ever Conducted
An Alberta research team's review and synthesis of the literature on the safety of hip resurfacing will be among the most comprehensive ever conducted when the work concludes later this year. The work is being conducted by researchers from Alberta Bone and Joint Health Institute and the University of Calgary's Faculty of Medicine.
It is the first comprehensive review to include adverse events and revision rates by prosthesis type and placement and by patient subgroup. Revision involves surgery to replace or repair a prosthesis.
By late June, the researchers had reviewed almost 7,000 titles and abstracts and extracted data from more than 200 studies, with more to come. The data will be analyzed in detail. They expect to issue a report by the end of 2011, providing clinicians and health care policy makers in Alberta and elsewhere with valuable findings on adverse events, early revision and re-operation rates, and reported functional outcomes. Patient subgroup findings will be on the basis of age, gender and preoperative diagnosis, among other fields.
Their work is funded by a grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Canadian Arthritis Network Knowledge Translation and Exchange.
Click here to see a poster on this work presented by Dr. Cy Frank, Executive Director of ABJHI, at the Canadian Orthopaedic Association's annual meeting, July 7-9.