Orthopedics Today Current Issue
The following articles appeared in the print edition of Orthopedics Today.
Table of Contents
- As the pendulum swings from overuse to rationing: Facing the hard medical-care choices in orthopedics Douglas W. Jackson, MD
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- Rethinking informed consent: Tell your patients of all the treatment choices available to them Lawrence H. Brenner, JD; B. Sonny Bal, MD, PhD, JD, MBA
- Arthroscopic ankle debridement relieves pain, improves function in NFL players
- Bills target antitrust law exemption for health care and medical liability insurers
- Burnout: A quality-of-life issue that can particularly affect orthopedic surgeons
- CMS final rule announces a 21.2% Medicare physician payment cut for 2010
- Diabetic foot, ankle patients have fivefold greater risk for postoperative infection
- Educational opportunity, interaction with thought leaders abound on the Big Island
- High 5-year revision, complication rates seen with three-part total ankle design
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- Multiplanar imaging shown to be reliable for assessing parameters of flatfoot
- Negative pressure wound therapy shows a 97.8% limb-salvage rate for diabetic feet
- ‘Orthopedic triad’ essential to the success of mobile bearing knee systems
- Primary knee arthroplasty: The pursuit to optimize and document patient outcomes
- Senate moves to block repeal of the Medicare physician payment formula
- Stable distal radius fracture fixation possible with threaded pinning method
- Structural bone graft can be used to convert failed ankle arthroplasty to fusion
- Surgeon turns attention from saving knees to saving lives in high-rise disasters
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