Orthopedics Today Current Issue
The following articles appeared in the print edition of Orthopedics Today.
Table of Contents
- The future of orthopedics and the orthopedic surgeon: Bright and challenging
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- How federal government investigations at hospitals can affect orthopedic surgeons Lawrence H. Brenner, JD; B. Sonny Bal, MD, PhD, JD, MBA
- Be aware of new importance placed on disclosure, transparency in orthopedics
- Cell-based therapies showing greater clinical promise for bone, tissue healing
- Congress proposes legislation targeting physician-owned specialty hospitals Anthony H. Choe, JD, MPH
- Examine pre- and intraoperative factors to help evaluate positive cultures in patients
- Meniscal repair: Treatments, tricks and troubleshooting
- New biomaterials, conductive substrates among strategies used to re-grow bone
- Osteoinductive growth factors can aid bone growth in orthopedic procedures
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- Professionalism in orthopedics: Self-regulation is the key
- Proper arthroscopic coding can improve reimbursement, survival during an audit
- Prospective study sees few differences in MIS vs. standard TKR after 3 months
- Routinely using antibiotic bone cement in THA is justified by the literature Michael J. Dunbar, MD, FRCS(C), PhD
- The routine use of antibiotics in cement for THA is not warranted Thomas P. Sculco, MD