Orthopaedic trauma
The orthopaedic trauma literature: an evaluation of statistically significant findings in orthopaedic trauma randomized trials
... major orthopaedic journal, careful study methodology and duplicate data ...to orthopaedic trauma for pragmatic reasons lim- its our generalizability beyond this ...the orthopaedic liter- ature ...
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Bio psychosocial determinants of time lost from work following non life threatening acute orthopaedic trauma
... The results of the study should be interpreted in light of a number of strengths and limitations. The strengths of this study include its prospective longitudinal design, high follow-up rate and that only ten percent of ...
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A patient-centered composite endpoint weighting technique for orthopaedic trauma research
... Level-1 trauma cen- ter in Baltimore and followed the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research conjoint analysis practice guidelines ...in orthopaedic trauma research ...from ...
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Comparison of published orthopaedic trauma trials following registration in Clinicaltrials gov
... various orthopaedic surgery journals to verify whether the jour- nals support trial registration prior to a ...of Orthopaedic Surgery, and the Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma did not include ...
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Predictors of return to work following motor vehicle related orthopaedic trauma
... Early identification of predictors for return to work (RTW) after injury is essential as a prerequisite for devel- oping effective interventions to prevent work disability and reduce the overall burden of injury [6]. ...
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Risk Factors for Deep Venous Thrombosis Following Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery: An Analysis of 56,000 patients
... From the entire 2005-2013 NSQIP database, we included only patients who underwent an orthopaedic trauma procedure as defined by current procedural terminol- ogy (CPT) codes for orthopaedic ...
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The association between seeking financial compensation and injury recovery following motor vehicle related orthopaedic trauma
... two trauma hospitals in Sydney, NSW, were recruited for the inception cohort study between November 2007 and February ...one trauma services in NSW (population approximately seven million), and provided a ...
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The comprehensive cohort model in a pilot trial in orthopaedic trauma
... Our primary aim was to provide an estimate of possi- ble effect size for the functional outcome of operative versus non-operative treatment of patients with an acute rupture of the Achilles tendon with accelerated ...
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Comorbid tobacco and other substance use and symptoms of anxiety and depression among hospitalised orthopaedic trauma patients
... the orthopaedic trauma population ...paedic trauma patients who are readmitted to hospital are more likely to use tobacco, alcohol and other drugs, indicating the need to address the comorbidities ...
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Corrosion and Electrochemical Impedance Properties of Ti Alloys as Orthopaedic Trauma Implant Materials
... in orthopaedic trauma implants, was studied for its electrochemical corrosion performance (in weight percent) in a phosphate buffered saline (PBS) solution at 37 °C using electrochemical impedance ...
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The Libyan civil conflict: selected case series of orthopaedic trauma managed in Malta in 2014
... of orthopaedic trauma casualties in the Libyan civil war crisis in the European summer of ...war trauma at a civilian ...1 trauma care hospital in our country, our Trauma and ...
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Facilitating trial recruitment: A qualitative study of patient and staff experiences of an orthopaedic trauma trial
... an orthopaedic trauma ...of trauma trials in general as well as staff experiences of ...other trauma trials, ii) their experience of explaining re- search studies to patients and iii) their ...
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Use of reprocessed external fixators in orthopaedic surgery: a survey of 243 orthopaedic trauma surgeons
... The purpose of this study was to determine the current practices of orthopaedic trauma surgeons with regard to reprocessed EFs. We hypothesized that there would be heterogeneity in practices between ...
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Are large clinical trials in orthopaedic trauma justified?
... The sample size for the pilot study (n = 89) was chosen to inform the design of a large definitive trial and demon- strate to large funding agencies that the selected method- ology was feasible. We published the results ...
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The impact of age on major orthopaedic trauma: an analysis of the United Kingdom Trauma Audit Research Network database.
... In order to address this potential limitation, we have assessed the results generated by hospitals with both high and low levels of data completeness and have shown that for the variables investigated, completeness did ...
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The impact of surgeon and patient treatment preferences in an orthopaedic trauma surgery trial
... Although lack of surgeon equipoise is often considered an influential contributor to poor trial recruitment, we have found very few estimates in the literature of the ex- tent of loss of otherwise eligible patients ...
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Socio-economic outcome after blunt orthopaedic trauma: Implications on injury prevention
... patients and are less frequent in patients older than 50 years old. Advantages of a supportive family and social network on post-injury outcome and life satisfaction were pointed out by several authors [21,24,25]. This ...
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Treatment of Traumatic Acetabulum Lesions in an African Orthopaedic Trauma Department
... DOI: 10.4236/ojo.2019.910021 202 Open Journal of Orthopedics Conventional radiography in incidence (face, profile and three quarters wing and obturator) was prescribed to confirm the diagnosis of the varieties of hip ...
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Microstructure and biomechanical characteristics of bone substitutes for trauma and orthopaedic surgery
... The first use of plaster of paris (gypsum) as an artifical bone substitute was reported on in 1892 [15]. Technolo- gical evolution and a better understanding of bone-heal- ing biology have led to the development of ...
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United States level I trauma centers are not created equal – a concern for patient safety?
... in orthopaedic traumatology in the last few decades, the intricacy of the techniques and equipment necessitate some familiarity by the OR ...to trauma care, yet we believe that orthopaedic sur- gery ...
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