STUDY DESIGN Analysis of spine-related patient education materials (PEMs) from subspecialty websites. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess the readability of spine-related PEMs and compare to readability data from 2008. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Many spine patients use the Internet for health information. Several agencies recommend that the readability of online PEMs should be no ...

E. Bishop (‘‘Bish’’) Mumford was born in 1879 in Indiana [2] (most likely in or near New Harmony, the birthplace of both of his parents, who were committed to Robert Owen’s concept of that socialistic community established by Owen in 1826 [4]). He graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1901 and Johns Hopkins in 1905. He obtained postgraduate training at Boston Children’s Hospital and Gou...

In this paper, we present an application that covers the whole complex school timetabling process, from the data introduction to the final adjustment of the automatically generated solution. On the one hand, our application interacts with the Academic Administration Official Systems (AAOS) and simplifies the hard phase of introducing the data. On the other hand, complete solutions are efficient...

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) recently released a new information statement on antibiotic prophylaxis for patients who have had a total joint replacement.1 An earlier statement was developed jointly with the American Dental Association (ADA) in 1997 and revised in 2003. The new statement was not developed collaboratively with the ADA, but is intended “as an educational too...

A collection of Practice Guidelines published in AFP is available at http:// www.aafp.org/afp/ practguide. Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries, which are usually related to sports, have an incidence of approximately 252,000 yearly, with women two to eight times more likely to have an ACL injury vs. men. Persons who experience ACL injuries have an increased risk of arthritis. The American ...

Asynchronous Active Objects (AAOs), primarily exempli ed by actors [1], nowadays exist in many forms (various kinds of actors, agents and components) and are more and more used because they t well the dynamic and asynchronous nature of interactions in many distributed systems. They raise various new issues regarding exception handling for which few operational solutions exist. More precisely, a...

BACKGROUND Despite ongoing policy debate, little is known about the growth in orthopedic surgery practices with onsite magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) capacity, or practice characteristics associated with the acquisition of in-office MRI equipment. METHODS In July 2012, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) member practices received a web-based survey requesting general information...

AIM Antibiotic prophylaxis guidelines have been developed for health care and dentistry. The authors examined whether dentists were following the 2007 American Heart Association (AHA) and the 2012 American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) recommendations for antibiotic prophylaxis. MATERIALS AND METHODS A survey was sent to 600 dentists in the south-central region of the United Stat...