In November 2023, leaders of the editorial boards of 6 orthopaedic journals, leaders of funding agencies, and officials from the National Institutes of Health met
Category: Orthopaedic Essentials
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The JBJS Clinical Summaries collection continues to expand. The summaries are a useful tool for musculoskeletal clinicians, offering synopses of recent findings and current treatment
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When and how would primary care physicians (PCPs) like to hear from orthopaedic surgeons regarding mutual patients? JBJS Deputy Editor for Social Media Matt Schmitz
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What happens when a patient declines care but may not have the capacity to provide consent? What defines informed consent? What are ethical obligations and
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Members of the orthopaedic community worldwide turn to JBJS to stay informed of current evidence, techniques, and the latest research in musculoskeletal care. Of the
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An international team of musculoskeletal oncology experts have explored several important questions regarding the surgical treatment of patients through secondary analyses of data from the
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A new article in JBJS Reviews offers guidance on best tools and practices for systematic reviews. The article was simultaneously published in Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica,
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In this post, Dr. Thomas Bauer, Co-Editor of JBJS Case Connector, discusses a recent report of 2 cases of Mycobacterium tuberculosis osteomyelitis after spinal fusion
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Editor-in-Chief Dr. Marc Swiontkowski discusses a new study from The Netherlands that presents a fully automatic method for assessing lower-limb alignment from computed tomography (CT)
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A video summary is available with the new study by Thorne et al. in JBJS: No Increased Risk of Nonunion with Bisphosphonate Use in a