The activity of rheumatology nurses in Spain

A cross-sectional study was performed in Spanish rheumatology departments. Results were based on surveys administered to nurses. 56% of the profession...

The Fallacy of Follow-up: When Orthopaedic Trauma Patients Actually Return to Clinic

Study: 293 patients were treated for a traumatic injury during the months of January and July 2016. Of these 241 patients, 157 were requested to retur...

Modern psychometrics applied in rheumatology--a systematic review

IRT applications have markedly increased within rheumatology over the past decades. To date, IRT has primarily been applied to patient-reported outcom...

Systematic Review of the Preclinical Technology Readiness of Orthopedic Gene Therapy and Outlook for Clinical Translation

Gene therapy has been proposed as a possible approach to improve or augment bone healing. Small animal models that support the use of gene therapy do...

Choosing Wisely: the American College of Rheumatology's Top 5 for pediatric rheumatology

The ACR pediatric rheumatology Top 5 is one of the first pediatric subspecialty-specific Choosing Wisely Top 5 lists. Items focused on testing for ant...

Reporting Complications in Spinal Surgery - a Systematic Literature Review

The prevalence of reporting complications in spinal surgeries is highly heterogeneous. Almost one-third of spine surgical studies did not report compl...

Korean rheumatology workforce from 1992 to 2015: current status and future demand

Rheumatology in Korea has rapidly advanced in the 24 years since the subspecialty board certification program was established. In 2015, there were 311...

Numerical simulations on periprosthetic bone remodeling: a systematic review

Femur and tooth were the most evaluated bone segment. The balance between computational cost and accuracy is needed to accurately simulate the bone re...

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