The International Documentation and Evaluation System (IDES)—10-years experience

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In 1993 Sir Dennis Paterson wrote an editorial on the International Documentation and Evaluation System (IDES) [9]. He outlined the principles of IDES as consensus, hierarchical information, radiographic evaluation and acceptability. IDES was established by the International Society of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology (SICOT) Standing Committee on Documentation and Evaluation, which was founded in 1990 with Prof. M.E. Müller as chairman, and presented at the American Association of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS) 61st annual meeting in 1994. The nomenclature used on the three IDES sheets for primary total hip arthroplasty (THA), revision THA and followup is based on the consensus paper by the Hip Society, the SICOT Commission on Documentation and Evaluation and the Task Force on Outcome Studies of the AAOS [6]. This consensus paper provided a terminology named CART (Clinical and Radiographic Terminology), in which each term, whether applying to a functional or radiographic parameter, was specifically defined to have a constant meaning. The initial impulse to create such a terminology was already given in 1985 when J. Galante [4] called for a uniform method of evaluating and reporting the results of hip-replacement surgery in order to compare the results on a common standardized basis. …