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hip fracture
Fast, easy summary view of NICE guidance on 'hip fracture'
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Selection of prostheses for primary total hip replacement
Based on the evidence, NICE has recommended to the NHS that:
- Wherever possible, the NHS should use artificial hip joints that can show they last for 10 years or more. This is called a benchmark.
- Sometimes a surgeon might need to use an artificial hip that does not meet this benchmark. If this is the case, the hip should have at least 3 years evidence. This evidence should show that the artificial hip is on target to meet the 10-year benchmark.
- Artificial hips that do not meet the standards 1 and 2 above should only be used in the NHS as part of a clinical trial. If you need one of these hips, then your surgeon will discuss the details of the clinical trial with you before you agree to have the operation.
- Artificial hips are described in one of three ways: cemented, uncemented or hybrid. It depends on the design of the artificial hip and how it is fixed into the bone, during the operation. There is more evidence that cemented artificial hips meet the 10-year benchmark (described in point 1) and produce the least pain and discomfort.
- To help the NHS establish and do the best for their THR patients more evidence on the performance of artificial hip joints and THRs
is needed. Therefore, NICE has recommended that the NHS should set up a hip registry and should encourage more research. This may mean that the NHS and your surgeon will collect information about your hip operation and how well you have progressed.
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Other information
- TA2 Hip disease - replacement prostheses: guidance (web format)
- TA2 Hip disease - replacement prostheses: questions and answers
NICE Pathways
This guidance has been incorporated into the following NICE Pathways, along with other related guidance and products.
Visit the NICE Pathway: hip fracture
Background information
- Hip disease - replacement prostheses: review decision - August 2011
- Review Proposal - June 2011
- Hip disease - replacement prostheses: appeal
- Review decision - July 2009
- Review decision - July 2009: appendix 1 proposal comment summary table
- Review Proposal - May 2009
- Review decision (September 2005)
- Review proposal (February 2005)
- Letter to consultees on review proposal following discussion meeting at NICE
- Review of NICE Technology Appraisal Guidance No 2 - Guidance on the selection of prostheses for primary total hip replacement
- Hips appeal
- Hip Prostheses Assessment Report
- NICE issues Guidance to the NHS on Artificial Hip Joints
- Initial appraisal: Hip Prostheses and Extraction of Wisdom Teeth
This page was last updated: 29 March 2012
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Guidance formats
- Web format
- Full Guidance (PDF)
- Patient version (PDF)
- TA2 Arweiniad ar Ddethol Cymalau Gosod ar gyfer Clun Cyfan Newydd Cyntaf: deall canllawiau NICE
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In response to paragraph 7.1 of the guidance, the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency (PASA) entered into consultation with the British Orthopaedic Association, British Hip Society and the Association of Healthcare Industries to establish:
- A transparent process for collecting and evaluating evidence of prosthetic hip revision rates
- Benchmarking data to enable interpretation and implementation of the guidance.
- As a result, the Orthopaedic Data Evaluation Panel (ODEP) was established in 2002. ODEP is now hosted by NHS Supply Chain following the decommissioning of NHS PASA. Information regarding its operation and a full list of prostheses and their rating in relation to the benchmarks may be found at www.supplychain.nhs.uk/odep
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Implementation tools and resources
- None available
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