CORR Insights®: Perioperative Risk Adjustment for Total Shoulder Arthroplasty: Are Simple Clinically Driven Models Suffi...
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Not the Last Word: Want to Match in an Orthopaedic Surgery Residency? Send a Rose to the Program Director
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CORR Insights®: What Are the Frequency, Associated Factors, and Mortality of Amputation and Arthrodesis After a Failed I...
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Residency Diary: Big Lessons in Small Moments
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High Survivorship and Few Complications With Cementless Total Wrist Arthroplasty at a Mean Followup of 9 Years
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BackgroundTotal wrist arthroplasty (TWA) has been described as traditionally being performed with fixation in the radius and carpus with cement. The TWA implant used in our series has been associated with promising results in studies with up to 6 years followup; however, studies evaluating survivorship, pain, and function with this implant are limi...
Current Total Knee Designs: Does Baseplate Roughness or Locking Mechanism Design Affect Polyethylene Backside Wear?
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BackgroundTibial baseplate roughness and polyethylene-insert micromotion resulting from locking-mechanism loosening can lead to polyethylene backside wear in TKAs. However, many retrieval studies examining these variables have evaluated only older TKA implant designs.QuestionsWe used implant-retrieval analysis to examine if there were differences i...
Editorial Comment: Learning From Large-Scale Orthopaedic Databases
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ArtiFacts: Ivory Hemiarthroplasty: The Forgotten Concept Lives On
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CORR Insights®: Which Clinical and Patient Factors Influence the National Economic Burden of Hospital Readmissions After...
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Perioperative Risk Adjustment for Total Shoulder Arthroplasty: Are Simple Clinically Driven Models Sufficient?
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BackgroundThere is growing interest in value-based health care in the United States. Statistical analysis of large databases can inform us of the factors associated with and the probability of adverse events and unplanned readmissions that diminish quality and add expense. For example, increased operating time and high blood urea nitrogen (BUN) are...
