Arias-de la Torre, Jorge http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6908-9611
Domingo, Laia
Martínez, Olga
Muñoz, Laura
Robles, Noemí
Puigdomenech, Elisa
Pons-Cabrafiga, Miquel
Pallisó, Francesc
Mora, Xavier
Espallargues, Mireia
Funding for this research was provided by:
Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Article History
Received: 29 October 2018
Accepted: 4 February 2019
First Online: 21 February 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The present project will be developed in the framework of the Catalan Arthroplasty Register (RACat). Due to the nature of the data used to address the objectives and the belonging of the RACat to the Catalan Health System as a public health registry, it is not necessary an ethical approval. To guaranty the confidentiality of the patients according to the Spanish current regulation on data protection, the data are anonymised and continuously supervised by the steering committee of the RACat. This committee is composed by experts both from the orthopaedic surgery services of the different hospitals involved in data collection, as from the Catalan Health Service (CatSalut), the Catalan Society of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology (SCCOT), and the Agency for Health Quality and Assessment of Catalonia (AQuAS).
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