@article{4a5d13cdfb3e4af7a9ec198fc9a66253,
title = "History of the Australian Breast Device Registry",
abstract = "Following the Dow Corning crisis in the 1990s, several national breast implant registries were formed by plastic surgery societies around the world. The Australian Breast Implant Registry (BIR) was developed in 1997 as a voluntary registry where patients were charged a moiety per implant. At the time of the Poly Implant Proth{\`e}se (PIP) crisis in 2010, there were over 30,000 registrations in the BIR. However, when the dataset was interrogated to retrieve PIP implant-related information, only 3.4 per cent of 13,000 PIP implants were recorded in the BIR database.",
keywords = "Australia, breast implants, registries, surgeons",
author = "Rod Cooter and Shiv Chopra and Gillian Farrell and Susannah Ahern",
note = "Funding Information: Prior to the Federal Government committing any funding, however, it was a mandatory requirement that any new registry should include all surgical groups involved in this type of surgery: breast surgeons, plastic surgeons and cosmetic surgeons. Each of these three groups were represented on the Chief Medical Officer\u2019s PIP investigating panel; therefore, a collaborative plan was instituted to design the new implant registry as an opt-out national system (that is, all patients are included unless they choose not to be) compliant with international best practice. Advice was sought from our orthopaedic colleagues who had established a successful opt-out National Joint Replacement Registry in 1999, which became fully national in 2002.6 One of our early hurdles was securing start-up funding while we waited for financial support from the Federal Government. This was provided by the Australasian Foundation for Plastic Surgery (AFPS) and after further campaigning for over two years, ongoing funding was finally secured from the Department of Health and Aging as per the recommendation from the 2012 senate inquiry. After a process of due diligence to select a robust registry provider, Monash University\u2019s Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Health was our chosen collaborator because of their extensive experience managing registries and willingness to collaborate and o)\u8000er support to establish a pilot program\u2014again financially supported by the AFPS. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2024, Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons. All rights reserved.",
year = "2024",
doi = "10.34239/ajops.73942",
language = "English",
volume = "7",
journal = "Australasian Journal of Plastic Surgery",
issn = "2209-170X",
publisher = "Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons",
number = "1",
}