OrthoBuzz

[...] physicians. According to the JBJS Mobile Technology and Social Media Usage Study among Orthopaedic Surgeons, few orthopaedic surgeons were interested in LinkedIn or Facebook. With the exception of [...]

[...] visit most often and spend the most time on. The Kantar study evaluates the opinions of orthopaedic surgeons on 29 professional websites, including 8 orthopaedic sites. Not only does JBJS.org rank [...]

[...] chip inside almost every smartphone, which helps the device know up from down, could help orthopaedic surgeons remotely analyze the gaits of their patients after joint-replacement surgery. So says [...]

[...] physicians. Data from those individuals may not represent the compensation realities for orthopaedic surgeons in independent or smaller group practices. [...]

[...] criteria is to encourage clinicians to practice evidence-based medicine for improved patient outcomes and to use limited healthcare resources more efficiently. But, like any “administrative” [...]

[...] , emailing and texting with patients, and using mobile health-monitoring apps–has improved patient outcomes. Jonathan Linkous, chief executive officer of the American Telemedicine Association, told [...]

[...] cases in which the diagnosis or severity of impairment is unclear, we will be improving patient outcomes while lowering the overall cost of care. That in turn will help us achieve the “triple aim” [...]

[...] medicine serve as a means of decreasing variation in health-care delivery and improving patient outcomes. The history of evidence-based medicine is interesting and is well covered in the article by [...]

[...] -Chief and Deputy Editors of The Journal because of their long-standing significance to the orthopaedic community and the many citations they receive in the literature. Our OrthoBuzz commentators will [...]

[...] treatment should still be an option. In the August 6, 2014 JBJS, Grindem et al. do the orthopaedic community a huge service by providing data from a prospectively enrolled and carefully followed [...]

[...] -Chief and Deputy Editors of The Journal because of their long-standing significance to the orthopaedic community and the many citations they receive in the literature. Our OrthoBuzz commentators will [...]

[...] of shoulder prostheses. JBJS: How do you think JBJS can best address the needs of the orthopaedic community in light of this increasing subspecialization? Dr. Thornhill: JBJS needs to maintain its [...]

[...] . However, this article points out the need for much-improved patient education. Each orthopaedic practice will handle this differently, but perhaps when surgery is recommended, the physician [...]

[...] and incrementally. However, every so often, something comes along that really changes orthopaedic practice. Such is the case with the introduction of reverse shoulder arthroplasty, which is a [...]

[...] and placed in their proper perspective. Indeed, one of the greatest frustrations in orthopaedic practice is the inability to identify the causative factors for a condition. The failure of a total [...]

[...] that our nation can afford presents a real opportunity to positively shape the future of orthopaedic practice. Thomas A. Einhorn, MD, Editor, JBJS Reviews [...]

In my 20-plus years serving as a deputy editor and editor of JBJS, I have never seen the kind of media interest in research published in The Journal t [...]

Each month during the coming year, OrthoBuzz will bring you a current commentary on a “classic” article from The Journal of Bone & Joint Surge [...]

Since 2003, JBJS has assigned level-of-evidence (LOE) ratings to all clinical articles, based on a system developed by the UK’s Centre for Evidence- [...]

If you’re a physician in private practice, there may be very few doctors following in your footsteps, according to results from athenahealth’s 9th [...]

[...] for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), in conjunction with the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery and the Residency Review Committee for Orthopaedic Surgery, has implemented the [...]

[...] of periprosthetic infection remains one of the most difficult and challenging problems in orthopaedic surgery. Conventional approaches such as the use of tissue and/or fluid cultures to identify and [...]

[...] Thomas Thornhill, MD is the John B and Buckminster Brown Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Chair of the Department of Orthopaedics at Brigham and Women’ [...]

[...] Perhaps more than any other advance in orthopaedic surgery, total joint arthroplasty has improved the lives of millions of patients. Originally [...]

[...] Ligament Tears,” JBJS, October 2, 2013. Analysis found estimated annual savings from ACL reconstruction of $10 billion. “The Societal and Economic Value of Rotator Cuff Repair,” JBJS, [...]

[...] “When will I be able to play again?” Following ACL reconstruction surgery, that’s a question orthopaedic surgeons and physical therapists invariably hear— [...]

[...] “When will I be able to play again?” Following ACL reconstruction surgery, that’s a question physical therapists and orthopaedic surgeons invariably hear— [...]

[...] increased weight. A prospective randomized trial among 36 patients who underwent primary ACL reconstruction with semitendinosus-gracilis autograft found no difference in knee laxity, peak isometric [...]

[...] instructions for use and maintenance of any patient-warming device. Marc Swiontkowski, MD JBJS Editor-in-Chief [...]

[...] integrity and for innumerable other reasons, back to the gym we go. Marc Swiontkowski, MD JBJS Editor-in-Chief [...]

[...] by clicking on the “Leave a Comment” button in the box to the left. Marc Swiontkowski, MD JBJS Editor-in-Chief [...]

[...] Dr. Vinod Dasa, assistant professor of clinical orthopaedics at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, has scheduled a [...]

[...] relative to those whose fractures are treated nonsurgically. The study, published in Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, also found that the quality-adjusted life years in people with [...]

[...] for Worker Productivity Affect the Measured Cost-Effectiveness of Lumbar Discectomy?” Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, December 2013. AAOS also hosts a website to highlight the notion of [...]

[...] and biologics become available. We welcome comments from JBJS readers. Mark D. Miller, MD JBJS Deputy Editor for Sports Medicine [...]

[...] appropriate indications for alternative procedures to address these issues. Andrew Green, MD JBJS Deputy Editor for the Upper Extremity [...]

[...] space remains a valid anatomic concept for all arthroplasty surgeons. Robert Bucholz, MD JBJS Deputy Editor for Adult Reconstruction and Trauma [...]