Joint Approach newsletters
The NJR newsletter (Joint Approach) is published quarterly and is full of useful information.
You can download electronic copies of the NJR's Joint Approach newsletter from this area.
This issue details the new arrangements for the National Joint Registry to be incorporated into the National Clinical Audit and Patient's Outcomes Programme. It also shows the compliance rates over the past year.
This issue details the release of the NJR 4th Annual Report and its launch at the British Orthopaedic Association Congress in September 2007. This issue also includes information regarding the latest data set MDSv3.
This issue provides details of the new service called ‘NJR ReportsOnline’ which allows surgeons and hospitals access to a variety of reports via the NJR website. The issue also includes details on the plan to link NJR data with other national databases.
This issue, in the main, focuses on some of the key findings of the NJR 2nd Annual Report. Also included is an article on the experiences of a hip replacement patient. An outline of how to use the NJR barcode reader system is also included.
This issue updates you on the expanding NJR support network, NJR Stakeholder reporting and gives you the Scottish Arthroplasty Project prospective on hip and knee replacement surgery. Plus articles on NJR StatsOnline and The Hip Owners Manual.
This issue of the newsletter focuses on improvements to the data entry system, and introduces the enhanced surgeon default techniques and how to use the bulk data facility. It also introduces NJR StatsOnline, the website facility for viewing NJR statistics.
The importance of patient consent is raised in this issue. The back page features a patient's hip replacement experience in their seventies. It introduces how NJR hospital data managers can complete surgeon default techniques.
This issue of the newsletter largely focuses on some of the key findings of the NJR 1st Annual Report. Readers should refer to the Annual Report itself for further details and supporting information. The full report and a summary report are available on this site.
This issue outlines the actions hospitals need to take to collect MDS v2. It also includes details of some new features: Regional Clinical Co-ordinator and Regional Audit Co-ordinator locator maps and a new data entry section on implant components.
The NJR has introduced a new minimum dataset (MDS v2). This issue informs users of the improvements that MDS v2 brings. Issue 5 also includes an example of good practice within a large orthopaedic hospital illustratrating successful NJR data capture.
This issue contains several articles on data collection, including an introduction to the forthcoming changes to the NJR Minimum Dataset, how to search for implant components on the NJR database and some handy tips for looking at data within CSV files.
This issue updates you on the progress of the NJR and contains an article that reflects a younger patient's experience of having a knee replacement. It also contains information that may be of particular interest to the surgical profession.
This issue updates you as to what has been happening since the NJR went live. This issue contains an article about patient consent and contains information on what to do if you have only just heard about the NJR.
This issue introduces the key elements of the NJR and how it is being implemented.