Reply to Letter to Editor: Orthopaedic Surgeons Prefer to Participate in Expertise-based Randomized Trials

Comment to the Letter to the Editor: Subjective Symptoms Related to GSM Radiation from Mobile Phone Base Stations: a cross-sectional study In reply to the comments by Seyed Mohammad Javad Mortazavi

Letter to the Editor Re: Orthopaedic Surgeons Prefer to Participate in Expertise-based Randomized Trials

Dear Sir, We read with interest the article by Bednarska et al. in which they assess the willingness of surgeons to participate in an expertise-based randomized controlled trial (RCT) to compare the effectiveness of high tibial osteotomy (HTO) with unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) for treating isolated medial compartment osteoarthritis [2]. There are, however, certain issues that requir...

Letter to editor " Applying High-quality DNA Melting Curve Analysis in Identifying Staphylococcus aureus and Methicillin-resistant Strains "

Letter to editor " Applying High-quality DNA Melting Curve Analysis in Identifying Staphylococcus aureus and Methicillin-resistant Strains "   Ramezan Ali Ataee   Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Hospital Research Development Committee, Applied Microbiology Research Center, System Biology, Poisoning Institute, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, T...

Can we recruit to expertise trials? Experience from the total or partial knee arthroplasty trial (TOPKAT)

The difficulties of conducting a randomised controlled trial (RCT) of a surgical intervention have long been recognised. Individual surgeon skill and experience introduce an additional challenge to those of conventional RCTs and as a consequence, surgeons may be reluctant to participate in orthopaedic surgery trials. The use of expertise based randomised trials has been proposed as an alternati...

Intraarticular Injections of Platelet-rich Plasma (PRP)in the Management of Knee Osteoarthritis

  The clinical use of PRP therapy in the practical setting of orthopaedic fields is increasing partly because of the accessibility of devices that are used in outpatient preparation and delivery. Another reason is the strong advertisement of PRP procedures as the ultimate treatment and novel technology for knee problems by a few orthopaedic surgeons based on claims of abundant scientific eviden...