Affiliation:
1. Senior Department of Orthopedics, The Fourth Medical Center of PLA General Hospital, Beijing, PR China
Abstract
Background China has neither a nationwide joint replacement registry similar to Sweden and New Zealand nor a universal healthcare (medical insurance) registry similar to Hong Kong and Singapore to check. The purpose was to initially understand the distribution characteristics of gender, age and etiology of patients undergoing total hip replacement for non-traumatic reasons nationwide. Methods The clinical data of patients who underwent initial artificial total hip replacement due to non-traumatic reasons in joint surgery of 13 large general first-class hospitals at Grade 3 in northern, western, eastern, southern, and southwestern China were collected. After the classification of patients by gender, the etiological characteristics and age distribution of male and female patients were compared, as well as male to female ratio and disease composition ratio of patients of different ages, distribution of causes in different regions, composition ratio, and age distribution characteristics of patients of different ethnic groups. Results In this study, the data of a total of 7663 patients in joint surgery of 13 general first-class hospitals at Grade 3 from 2015 to 2017 were collected, and 7622 patients were finally included in the study after excluding missing age, gender and some foreign patients. The main causes of diagnosis in male patients were AVN, DDH, and OA, and top 3 causes in female patients were DDH, AVN, and OA. Conclusions This study initially understand the distribution characteristics of gender, age and etiology of patients undergoing total hip replacement for non-traumatic reasons nationwide, and further guide the clinical diagnosis, early prevention and treatment of the disease and provide data.
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