No-Fault Compensation From the Patient Compensation Association in Denmark After Primary Total Hip Replacement in Danish Hospitals 2005-2017

Khan, Nissa; Petersen, Michael Mørk; Mikkelsen, Kim Lyngby; Schrøder, Henrik Morville

doi:10.1016/j.arth.2020.02.042

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“…NPE registered 215 claims due to pain, although only 7 (3%) were accepted for compensation; pain alone does not serve as a cause for compensation, which is in line with previous reports from NPE (Clementsen et al 2018, Aae et al 2020. Khan et al (2020) assessed compensation claims based on the Danish arthroplasty register and found that 2.5% of all THAs filed a claim, which is somewhat higher than our findings of 1.9%. They reported nerve damage and insufficient or incorrect treatment as the leading causes for accepted claims.…”

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confidence: 91%

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Compensation claims after hip arthroplasty surgery in Norway 2008–2018

Aae

Jakobsen

Bukholm³

et al. 2021

Acta Orthopaedica

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Background and purpose — Orthopedic surgery is one of the specialties with most compensation claims, therefore we assessed the most common reasons for complaints following total hip arthroplasty (THA) reported to the Norwegian System of Patient Injury Compensation (NPE) and viewed these complaints in light of the data from the Norwegian Arthroplasty Register (NAR). Patients and methods — We collected data from NPE and NAR for the study period (2008–2018), including age, sex, and type of complaint, and reason for accepted claims from NPE, and the number of arthroplasty surgeries from NAR. The institutions were grouped by quartiles into quarters according to annual procedure volume, and the effect of hospital procedure volume on the risk for accepted claim was estimated. Results — 70,327 THAs were reported to NAR. NPE handled 1,350 claims, corresponding to 1.9% of all reported THAs. 595 (44%) claims were accepted, representing 0.8% of all THAs. Hospital-acquired infection was the most common reason for accepted claims (34%), followed by wrong implant position in 11% of patients. Low annual volume institutions (less than 93 THAs per year) had a statistically significant 1.6 times higher proportion of accepted claims compared with higher volume institutions. Interpretation — The 0.8% risk of accepted claims following THAs is 1.6 times higher for patients treated in low-volume institutions, which should consider increasing the volume of THAs or referring these patients to higher volume institutions.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

“…Khan et al ( 2020 ) assessed compensation claims based on the Danish arthroplasty register and found that 2.5% of all THAs filed a claim, which is somewhat higher than our findings of 1.9%. They reported nerve damage and insufficient or incorrect treatment as the leading causes for accepted claims.…”

Section: Discussioncontrasting

confidence: 83%