Research Activities

The AJRR-C supports joint replacement research through its Administrative Core, Methodology Core and Resource Core.

Administrative Core

The AJRR-C's Administrative Core provides the management structure to support the collaborative's administrative and scientific work. It provides leadership at the institutional and national level. Its functions include:

  • Communicating and sharing research.
  • Conducting outreach activities.
  • Implementing research projects.
  • Carrying out continuous improvement efforts.
  • Administering pilot projects and fellowships.

Core leaders

Methodology Core

The AJRR-C's Methodology Core makes the most of Mayo Clinic's unique clinical research expertise in epidemiology, statistics, health sciences research and informatics. It helps researchers use data resources to maximum advantage to enhance clinical research in total joint replacement nationwide.

The collaborative accomplishes this by:

  • Providing consultation, education and mentoring services for investigators.
  • Examining and optimizing existing databases and clinical research networks to identify the most informative study populations and study designs.
  • Developing and disseminating novel methodologies for observational and interventional study designs.

Learn more about the Methodology Core's offerings and findings:

Core leader

Resource Core

The AJRR-C's Resource Core provides investigators with access to national total joint replacement data through the American Joint Replacement Registry (AJRR). The AJRR is a national hip and knee replacement registry initiated in 2011 to monitor the safety of total joint replacement implants and improve care for patients receiving such implants. It is part of a family of national orthopedic surgery subspecialty registries maintained by the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS).

The AJRR-C and the AAOS have established an ongoing, synergistic collaboration. The collaborative's Resource Core enhances the clinical research capabilities of the total joint arthroplasty research community by providing access to nationwide AJRR registry data. The AAOS, in turn, benefits from shared knowledge and methodological advances produced through the collaborative's studies.

Contact

Contact the American Joint Replacement Registry (AJRR) with questions about its projects, research tools and services, and other inquiries.