Seven researchers from DCE attended the 13th Annual ISAR congress held in Hamburg. The following DCE researchers gave a presentation at the congress:

• Statistician Eskild Bendix Kristiansen: Long term opioid therapy before and after total hip or knee arthroplasty: a comparison of 14 different definitions (poster presentation)
• Statistician Nickolaj Risbo: Socioeconomic position and subsequent chronic opioid use after hip fracture surgery: a Danish population-based cohort study, 2010-2018 (poster presentation)
• PhD student Simon Storgaard Jensen: Representativeness of The Danish national health survey for research in total hip arthroplasty patients: a population-based study (poster presentation)
• PhD student Marie Anneberg Brahe: Periprosthetic joint infection after knee arthroplasty is underreported in the Danish Knee Arthroplasty Register (oral presentation)
• Research year student Cecilia Majlund Hansen: Interaction effect and excess risk of infection after hip fracture surgery in multimorbid patients: a nationwide registry-based cohort study of 92,599 patients (oral presentation)
• Researcher Rikke Sommer Haaber: Multimorbidity measured with Charlson Comorbidity Index is associated with an increased risk of revision after primary total hip arthroplasty – a population-based hort study on 98,647 Danish patients during1995-2018 (poster presentation)
• Professor Alma Becic Pedersen (on behalf of PhD student Nadia Roldgaard Gadgaard): The association between markers of socioeconomic position and risk of infection after surgery for hip fracture: a nationwide cohort study of 54,853 Danish patients (poster presentation)
• Professor Alma Becic Pedersen (on behalf of previous PhD student Andre S Klenø): Impact of self-reported health on the risk of opioid use after total hip arthroplasty in patients with osteoarthritis (oral presentation)

The DCE researchers came home enriched with new friends and potential collaborations as well as new ideas. In addition, they took home two awards:

- PhD student Marie Anneberg Brahe won the Best Podium Presentation award
- PhD student Simon Storgaard Jensen won the Best Poster Presentation award

Congratulations to both.