About SwedeAmp (in English)
On this page you will find various info about SwedeAmp – the Amputation and Prosthetics Registry for the lower Extremity, a Swedish National Quality Registry.
General information
The main purpose of SwedeAmp is to improve the quality of care for individuals undergoing a lower limb amputation in Sweden. The registry captures clinically based data related to the patient, the surgical procedure, the prosthetic supply, and the patient’s situation before and after amputation.
SwedeAmp aims to
- provide a coherent view of the amputation panorama and its consequences
- demonstrate differences in the care of patients undergoing a lower limb amputation
- provide data for cost analyses
- provide guidance in the planning of treatment for individual patients at risk for an amputation
- provide data for the evaluation of the prosthetic fitting and rehabilitation
- provide data for feedback and improvements throughout the continuum of care.
SwedeAmp has been a National Quality Registry since 2011 and is funded by the Swedish government. SwedeAmp is connected to the competence center RC Syd (Quality Registry Center South).
More information regarding organization of Swedish registries can be found here:
Link to the national site for the system of National Quality Registries.
Annual reports
Every year SwedeAmp publish an annual report. If you are curious about the reports we have compiled all of them on our website.
Click here to get to the annual reports.
Published research based on SwedeAmp data
If you are curious about the published research that has been done based on SwedeAmp data we have compiled all the publications on our website.
Click here to get to the published research based on SwedeAmp data.
How to get access to SwedeAmp data for research
We welcome the use of SwedeAmp data for research purposes. To access data, two separate approvals are required: first from the Swedish Ethical Review Authority and thereafter from the Swedish Region Skåne. Both involve a fee that must be covered by the applying researcher.
You can find detailed information via the links below.
Approval for ethics review
At the Swedish Ethical Review Authority you apply for an approval for ethics review.
The information on their website is available in English.
Click here to visit the Swedish Ethical Review Authority.
Approval for data extraction from Region Skåne
At Region Skåne you apply for a KVB approval for the release of patient data.
The information on their website is only available in Swedish.
Click here to visit Region Skåne’s information about KVB approvals.
SwedeAmp’s variables at the Swedish Research Council
At the Swedish Research Council, in their tool RUT (Register Utiliser Tool), you can find desciptions about all the variables in SwedeAmp. Access to this tool requires a login.
The information on their website is only available in Swedish.
Click here to visit the Swedish Research Council’s tool RUT.
Contact with SwedeAmp
If you have questions regarding a planned research project based on SwedeAmp data, you are welcome contact us via info@swedeamp.com and we will do our best to assist you.
Publicerad: 12 augusti 2024Senast uppdaterad: 5 februari 2026
