Orthopedics

Optimal acetabular positioning differs from historic values, with reduced risk for dislocation with increased anteversion

Significant increase in utilization and associated costs seen among physicians' assistants and nurse practitioners

Drug unaffordability is an issue regardless of insurance status and across private, public payers

Increase was due to 36.0 percent increase in federal expenditures, mainly in response to COVID-19 pandemic

No difference seen in change in median tibial cartilage volume at 12 months for platelet-rich plasma versus saline placebo injections

Diagnostic yields were higher for disorders likely to have a monogenic cause versus those with a complex cause

Findings seen among the largest U.S. health systems, insurance groups, and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Findings reveal few of the top U.S. medical centers have policies addressing harassment of physicians and staff by patients

Education and exercise program, with and without dietary intervention, better than education only for knee osteoarthritis

IMB for 23 percent with CSA; patients with IMB also have increased likelihood of subclinical synovitis, tenosynovitis