Current national hand surgery registries worldwide.

The first hand surgery registry for all patients undergoing hand surgery was started in Sweden (the HAKIR registry) in 2010 (Arner et al., 2016). General hand surgery registries include patients undergoing any types of soft tissue or bone hand surgery. Databases of current hand surgery registries We used the member list of the International Society of Arthroplasty Registries and the European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (EFORT) website to identify national hand surgery registries. [Extracted from the article]