Background In the emerging fiscal climate of value-based decision-making and shared risk
and remuneration, outpatient total joint arthroplasty is attractive provided the incidence of …

Study Design: This was a prospective cohort study. Objective: The objective of this study was
to establish minimal clinically important difference (MCID) and substantial clinical benefit (…

Background: Readmissions following total hip arthroplasty are a focus given the forthcoming
financial penalties that hospitals in the United States may incur starting in 2015. The …

Background: Our institution developed a 1-hour mandatory narcotics-prescribing education
program as well as postoperative opioid-prescribing guidelines in response to the opioid …

Background: Operative procedural training is a key component of orthopaedic surgery
residency. The influence of intraoperative resident participation on the outcomes of surgery has …

Study Design. Retrospective cohort study. Objective. To determine the incidence of and
factors predicting 30-day readmission after anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF). …

Background Total joint arthroplasty (TJA) is a highly successful treatment, but is burdensome
to the national healthcare budget. National quality initiatives seek to reduce costly …

Purpose Recent studies demonstrated the overprescription of opioids after ambulatory hand
surgery in the setting of a national opioid epidemic. Prescriber education has been shown …

Study Design: Technical note. Objectives: To provide spine surgeons new to telemedicine
with a structured physical examination technique based on manual motor testing principles. …

Introduction While telemedicine usage has increased due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there
remains little consensus about how spine surgeons perceive virtual care. The purpose of …