Pre-injury demographic patterns of patients sustaining hip fractures in malaysia.

Introduction: Hip fractures entail a growing economic burden on the health care system. Study is warranted to further our understanding of its patterns and to create increased awareness in health care providers and the public.

Materials And Methods: Data was extracted from the ongoing National Orthopaedic Registry of Malaysia (NORM), for the period June 2008 till December 2009.

Cross-sectional survey of multi-centre patient registries in malaysia.

Objective: This survey set out to describe patient registries available in the country, to determine their security features, data confidentiality, extent of outputs produced and data quality of the registries.

Methods: A cross sectional survey was carried out via a self administered questionnaire.

Results: There were 21 patient registries which covered important chronic diseases in health.