Retrospective Study

From 2019 to 2023, osteopathic medical students were less successful matching into orthopedic surgery compared with allopathic medical students, according to published results.

Algorithm to identify patients with familial hypercholesterolemia from large health-care encounter databases.

ATLANTA — Limited access to supportive laboratory assays in developing countries significantly reduces the diagnostic utility of the ACR/EULAR criteria for systemic lupus erythematosus, which relies on an antinuclear antibody titer of 1:80 for its entry criterion, noted a presenter at the 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting.

An analysis of patients with postoperative breast cancer has shown increased OS and RFS among patients who received adjuvant therapy with cytokine-induced killer cell infusion, according to the results of a retrospective study published in Journal of ImmunoTherapy of Cancer.

Statin therapy was shown to be associated with a decreased risk of diabetic retinopathy in patients with type 2 diabetes and dyslipidemia, according to a study published in JAMA Ophthalmology.

According to study results, the MRI oblique trochlear view accurately evaluates trochlear morphology and better characterizes trochlear dysplasia in patients with patellofemoral instability compared with the standard MRI axial sequences.

Repeat, routine testing for latent tuberculosis infection among patients receiving biologics is both costly and of low clinical value, according to findings presented at the 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting.

Increased hydroxychloroquine blood levels can be used to predict later hydroxychloroquine retinopathy, according to findings published in Arthritis & Rheumatology.

There is compelling evidence that reducing variability in cancer care can improve patient outcomes and limit costs.

A cohort of postmenopausal women with osteoporosis at high risk for fracture prescribed abaloparatide outside of a clinical trial setting reported high treatment satisfaction, with 94% of participants adhering to daily injections as prescribed, according to study data presented at the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research annual meeting.