©2005 British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery doi:10.1302/0301-620X.87B12. 17085 $2.00 J Bone Joint Surg [Br] 2005;87-B:1593-4. Surgical research is often maligned. 1 Nevertheless, clear improvements in the surgical management of disorders of bone and joint have occurred since the advent of evidence-based medicine 30 years ago. Examples include joint replacement or arthroplasty surg...

BACKGROUND The EQ-5D is a standardised instrument that measures health-related quality-of-life and explores cost-effectiveness of treatments. Malawi is a low-resource country that would benefit from assessment of quality-of-life among individuals living with chronic conditions. Chichewa is the official native language of Malawi. The Chichewa version of the EQ-5D-3L developed by EuroQoL group ha...

General description: The Cincinnati Orthopaedic Disability Index (CODI) is a case-specific questionnaire completed by owners of dogs with orthopaedic disease, to measure individual functional status of the dog (Gingerich and Strobel 2003). Owners are asked to describe activities which are restricted in their dog due to the orthopaedic condition and each activity is categorised for severity by t...

We describe the development and validation of a scoring system for auditing orthopaedic surgery. It is a minor modification of the POSSUM scoring system widely used in general surgery. The orthopaedic POSSUM system which we have developed gives predictions for mortality and morbidity which correlate well with the observed rates in a sample of 2326 orthopaedic operations over a period of 12 months.

+*McAllister, D (A-American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM) First Time Investigator Award); *Markolf, K; *Oakes, D; *McWilliams, J; *Young, C +*UCLA Medical Center Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Los Angeles, CA 90095-6902. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery UCLA Center for Health Sciences, Box 956902, Los Angeles, CA 90095-6902, 310-206-5250, Fax: 310-825-1311, DMcAllister@Me...

T. B. McAuliffe, MA, FRCS, Junior Orthopaedic Registrar Department of Orthopaedics, The London Hospital, Turner Street, London El IBB, England. N. J. Fiddian, MA, FRCS, Senior Orthopaedic Registrar J. P. Browett, FRCS, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Department of Orthopaedics, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, West Smithfield, London EC1A 7BE, England. Requests for reprints should be sent to Mr T. B. ...

before operation. Figure 2-Twelve months after operation. Figure 3-Sinogram two years after operation. Figure 4-After a Girdlestone operation. }RoYal Liverpool Hospital, Prescot Street. Liverpool L7 8XP. England. R. Johnson, M.Ch.Orth., F.R.C.S., F R C S Ed Senior Orthopaedic Registrar R. Owen, M.Ch.Orth., F.R.C.S., Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon K. L. Barnes, F.R.C.S., F.R.C.S.Ed., Consultant ...

BACKGROUND Presentation of research at annual national orthopaedic conferences not only serves as a forum for the dissemination of knowledge but is also often a requirement of orthopaedic training programmes. The expected outcome is publication in a peer-reviewed journal. However, publication rates vary for a variety of reasons. The objective of this study was to determine publication rates of ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of specially trained physiotherapists in the assessment and management of defined referrals to hospital orthopaedic departments. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial. SETTING Orthopaedic outpatient departments in two hospitals. SUBJECTS 481 patients with musculoskeletal problems referred for specialist orthopaedic opinion. INT...

an understanding of patient mobility, international patients and medical tourism includes supply and demand side considerations. as well as micro-level reports of motivation and satisfaction we must acknowledge broader system-level dynamics. exploring these may unearth more complex geographies of patient travel.