Orthopedics Today Current Issue
The following articles appeared in the print edition of Orthopedics Today.
Table of Contents
- Questions loom regarding the future and the implementation of ACOs
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- CMS proposes payment change rates for 2012 Physician Fee Schedule
- HHS proposes updated rules to protect human research subjects in US studies
- Reforms recommended to prevent medical errors from resident fatigue
- Surgeon offers tips for when to select plates, pins or replacement for patients with shoulder fractures
- VTE prophylaxis may be needed during traumatic shoulder arthroplasty procedures
- Infections following total knee arthroplasty: Defining the role of the orthopedic surgeon Douglas W. Jackson, MD
- Physician payments: Health care reform uncertainties are blurring the future Douglas W. Jackson, MD
- Future of replacement may include more resurfacing, percutaneous fixation William A. Jiranek, MD
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- Creation of ASSH has roots in the treatment of injuries during war
- Ultrasound may not predict those who will spontaneously recover from trigger thumb
- Upper extremity injury not a risk factor for VTE in lower extremities, study finds
- Benefits seen with cannulated screw, cable technique for transverse patella fractures
- Age among risk factors for compartment syndrome after tibial shaft fracture
- Allograft seen as acceptable alternative to autograft for HTO
- Clinical feedback to surgeons may decrease acetabular cup malpositioning
- High rate of adverse events found with metal-on-metal total hip arthroplasty
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- Older age alone may not rule out ACL reconstruction, study reveals
- The exercise of court jurisdiction in the Internet age B. Sonny Bal, MD, PhD, JD, MBA
- Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: Current concepts, treatment advances and regulatory barriers
- Use of an extreme angle screw to reduce spinal deformities Oren N. Gottfried, MD