Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về hóa học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học quốc tế đề tài : Incidence of hip replacement among national health insurance enrollees in Taiwan | Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research BioMed Central Research article Incidence of hip replacement among national health insurance enrollees in Taiwan Yu-Shu Lai1 Hung-Wen Wei2 and Cheng-Kung Cheng 1 2 Address institute of Biomedical Engineering National Yang Ming University Taipei Taiwan and 2Joint Prosthesis Technology Research Center National Yang Ming University Taipei Taiwan Email Yu-Shu Lai - uesu@ Hung-Wen Wei - hwwei@ Cheng-Kung Cheng - ckcheng@ Corresponding author Open Access Published 15 September 2008 Received 3 March 2008 Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research 2008 3 42 doi l749-799X-3-42 Accepted I5 September 2008 This article is available from http content 3 1 42 2008 Lai et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract__ Background There is no national joint replacement registry in the country of Asia and reports of national outcomes of joint replacement in Asia as yet. Therefore this study was then to report a national data of the number of hip replacements incidence rate demographic characteristics of hip replacement patients and short-time survival rate after hip replacement of Han Chinese in Taiwan. Methods We analyzed 105 688 cases of hip replacements including primary partial hip replacement primary total hip replacement and revision of hip replacement from National Health Insurance research database between 1996 and 2004. The survival rate of primary hip replacement was estimated for each disease by the Kaplan-Meier method. Results Average annual number of primary partial hip replacement and primary total hip replacement were 4
