The German Arthroplasty Registry (EPRD) was launched in 2010 as a joint project by physicians, clinics, public health insurance funds and industry to collect data on hip and knee joint replacements throughout Germany to establish a reliable resource assessing arthroplasty surgery outcome over the long term. The 2019 Annual Report is the first annual report of the EPRD in English translation.

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In the six years spanning the start of data collection in November 2012 until the end of 2018, entries on over one million hip and knee arthroplasties have been submitted to the EPRD, with all data provided on a purely voluntary basis. This 2019 EPRD annual report presents results that can be drawn from the database to date.

The 2019 annual report marks the start of a new era in relation to the annual report’s content: Jointly with the British NJR (National Joint Registry), the world's largest arthroplasty registry by data entries, the EPRD has developed a new, more comprehensive product database structure which was launched last year. This report is the first annual report to be compiled using information from this new database, comprised of over 60,000 individual entries.

The 2019 Annual Report is available to download here.