Medical registries
Schulthess Klinik records the health-related personal data routinely collected in daily clinical practice in medical registries. Medical registries are used to systematically assess disease progression across all patients. They make it easier to bundle and quickly provide information that is essential for scientific purposes, clinical decision-making and quality control. Recording the patient’s baseline status and treatment outcomes is critical to assessing the efficacy of a treatment from a patient’s perspective.
Systematically collecting treatment outcomes is an important cornerstone of the research carried out at Schulthess Klinik and forms the basis for outcome research. This has been the case for many years now: Prof. Norbert Gschwend laid the foundation for this back in 1972 by introducing internal registries for hip and knee prostheses. Ever since 2004, our Research department has been systematically running the following registries, which contain specific patient-related information:
Current registries
The Research department currently runs the following registries:
| Spine surgery: | |
| Registry for spine surgery (Spine Tango) | since 2004 |
| Lower extremities: | |
| Registry for femoroacetabular impingement (impaired movement in the hip joint) | since 2013 |
| Registry for hip replacements | since 2014 |
| Registry for knee replacements | since 2014 |
| Registry for the meniscus, cruciate ligament and cartilage | since 2015 |
| Registry for foot surgery | since 2016 |
| Upper extremities: | |
| Registry for shoulder joint replacements | since 2006 |
| Registry for rotator cuffs (tear in the tendons around the shoulder) | since 2016 |
| Registry for trauma (shoulder) | since 2015 |
| Registry for prosthetic proximal interphalangeal joints | since 2013 |
| Registry for patient-specific forearm implants | since 2017 |
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Registry for shoulder instability:
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since 2020 |
| Registry for thumb carpometacarpal joint replacements | since 2019 |
Schulthess Klinik
Lengghalde 2
8008
Zürich
Switzerland