Evidence based literature that is truly important to your orthopaedic clinical practice.
Evidence based literature that is truly important to your orthopaedic clinical practice.
By OrthoBuzz for Surgeons 
In the January 4, 2017 issue of The Journal, Swart et al. provide a well-done Markov decision analysis on the cost effectiveness of three treatment options for femoral neck fractures in patients between the age of 40 and 65: open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF), total hip...
By OrthoBuzz for Surgeons 
OrthoBuzz occasionally receives posts from guest bloggers. This guest post comes from Grigory Gershkovich, MD. Shoulder arthroplasty continues to grow in popularity, and as the number of shoulder arthroplasties rises, so will the number of revisions. Infection is one major...
By OrthoBuzz for Surgeons 
OrthoBuzz occasionally receives posts from guest bloggers. This guest post comes from Brett A. Freedman, MD. In the December 21, 2016 edition of the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, Bunta, et al. published an analysis of data from the Own the Bone quality improvement program...
By OrthoBuzz for Surgeons 
The recently launched JBJS Knee Spotlight offers highly relevant and potentially practice-changing knee content from the most trusted source of orthopaedic information. Here are the five JBJS articles to which you will have full-text access through the Knee Spotlight during the...
By OrthoBuzz for Surgeons 
As an end-of-year thank-you to the orthopaedic community, we’re offering limited-time full-text access to the five most-read JBJSReviews articles during 2016. The fact that several of these most-read articles were published prior to 2016 is testament to the durable utility of...
By OrthoBuzz for Surgeons 
The exact mechanism by which osteochondritis dissecans (OCD) lesions develop is poorly understood. This month’s “Case Connections” spotlights 3 case reports of OCD in young baseball players, 2 of whom developed the condition in the shoulder. A fourth case report details 3...
By OrthoBuzz for Surgeons 
As an end-of-year thank-you to the orthopaedic community, we’re offering limited-time full-text access to the five most-read JBJS articles of 2016. The fact that several of these most-read articles were published prior to 2016 is testament to the durable utility of orthopaedic...
By OrthoBuzz for Surgeons 
The Ponseti method is a proven treatment for idiopathic clubfoot, yielding excellent outcomes with minimal pain or disability. However, as many as 40% of patients fail to respond to initial treatment or develop recurrent deformities. On Wednesday, January 25, 2017 at 8:00 PM...
By OrthoBuzz for Surgeons 
In a retrospective case-cohort analysis of 364 shoulders that had primary repair of recurrent anterior instability, Zimmermann et al. conclude in the December 7, 2016 issue of JBJS that arthroscopic Bankart repairs were inferior to the open Latarjet procedure, at a mean...
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