General introduction

Motivation for compiling these guidelines

Clinical practice guidelines are being used in many countries throughout the world to improve the quality of patient care. The Netherlands Orthopaedic Association has a long tradition of guideline development, starting in the mid-1980s with “eminence-based consensus” and following in the mid-1990s the renewed calls for the establishment of international methodologies to promote the rigorous development of clinical guidelines and to assess their quality and their impact on practice.

 

In 2016 almost 29,000 patients underwent a total hip arthroplasty and this annual number is still increasing (LROI, 2017). At the same time new materials, technologies and clinical pathways are continuously presented and/or promoted, which justifies this update of the last Guideline Total Hip Prosthesis 2010.

 

Defining the guideline

The guideline focuses on surgical treatment of adult patients with osteoarthritis of the hip. The most relevant outcome measures are pain and function, complications and survival of the prosthesis.

 

Literature

LROI (2017). Online LROI Annual Report 2017.