What Is CORRelations?
CORRelations is the subscription e-newsletter from the editorial team at Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® and The ABJS®. Every week, subscribers receive timely, practical insights drawn from the best-available evidence, suggestions from experts in health finance and healthcare policy, and real-world practice innovations that have improved margin or efficiency. This monthly column in CORR® briefly summarizes recent findings in the literature, with this one focusing on fractures and trauma; our full analysis is available online. CORRelations allows subscribers to select their subspecialties of interest—foot and ankle, spine, fractures and trauma, hand, joint replacement, or arthroscopy/sports. Our general category delivers information every busy orthopaedic surgeon should know.
Game Theory Delivers Reduced Prices on Trauma Implants
A generalizable recipe for hospital-surgeon collaboration to keep prices down and implant options up, this supply chain–based approach to lowering prices on trauma implants netted 7-figure savings and little reduction in surgeon choice.
AAOS’s Practice Guideline on Clavicle Fractures Is a Bit Too Enthused About Surgery
For the most part, it’s really good stuff. Our main concern about this guideline was that it overestimated the benefit of surgery and underestimated the potential harms.
A Face- (and Hip-) Saving Pearl for Fixing Unstable Intertrochanteric Fractures
When faced with a comminuted intertrochanteric hip fracture (sometimes called a pertroch or peritroch fracture), especially with an unstable lateral wall piece, consider opening, reducing, and stabilizing with a small accessory plate.
To Prevent Heterotopic Ossification, Consider Giving Tranexamic Acid Before Elbow Trauma Surgery
Consider administering tranexamic acid before surgery in patients undergoing surgery for elbow trauma; it may reduce the risk of heterotopic ossification afterward.
A Useful New Definition of “Unstable” for Ankle Fractures
For Weber B ankle fractures (SER-IIs and -IVs without a medial fracture), gravity stress radiographs may result in overdiagnosis and overtreatment; weightbearing x-rays will result in many fewer ORIFs. A great way to avoid overtreatment of a common fracture.
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CORRelations is more than a journal scan, and it’s not drawn mostly from CORR. Each week, our team of subject-matter experts curates the most-practical, real-world applicable, robust content from all journals that publish musculoskeletal content; identifies the key messages they contain; and shares when and how to use those discoveries to increase readers’ efficiency and effectiveness.
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Footnotes
A note from the Editor-in-Chief: In this new column “CORRelations Update” we bring you recently published content from CORRelations, a subscription e-newsletter for the busy, practicing orthopaedic surgeon, with new content published most weekdays. CORRelations delivers unbiased, ad-free, actionable information to help you practice more efficiently and more effectively. Content in this column covers subspecialty clinical posts from the “Need to Know” section of the newsletter, and rotates among the subspecialties each month. We welcome reader feedback on all of our columns and articles; please send your comments to eic@clinorthop.org.
The opinions expressed are those of the writer of the content within CORRelations, and do not reflect the opinion or policy of Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® or The Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons®.