Norway:
4.5 million inhabitants and about 300 orthopaedic surgeons
Reporting: Easy and fast on paper forms
Surgeons names are not registered:
a condition for participation by some
some surgeons operate on high-risk patients
Hospitals names are registered
Hospitals get their own results back:
Compare results with other hospitals
Compare results with the national average results
Hospital-results are only delivered to our contact surgeon at each hospital
never published and not delivered to health authorities