Patient Safety Scenario: Protocol Communication Failure

David Nelson, MD, FAAOS

A comparison of safety in aviation and medicine is frightening: Aviation disasters are investigated and written up, and every pilot has access to the lessons learned. In medicine, medical errors are investigated, written up, and buried so deeply that no one learns anything.

Get to Know the AAOS CPG Evidence to Decision Framework

Danielle Schulte, MS

To ensure that the Clinical Practice Guidelines provide the highest-quality guidance to members, staff and member volunteers follow a systematic process of literature review and recommendation creation.

Focus on Rehabilitation Needed after Two Decades of Gains in Acute Trauma Care

Brooke C. Hergert; Pedro G. Teixeira, MD; Anthony E. Johnson, MD, FAAOS

Recognizing the military’s trauma care advances, we are now examining other areas of improvement, specifically the rehabilitation of those suffering traumatic amputations.

The Success of Physician-hospital Co-management Agreements

Theodore A. Blaine, MD, FAAOS, FAOA; John Grady-Benson, MD, FAAOS; Stacey Lombardi, MBA; Courtland Lewis, MD, FAAOS

At the end of Hartford Healthcare’s Bone and Joint Institute's (BJI) fifth year of co-management and its third year of operation after opening an award-winning building, BJI has achieved many targets in key performance metrics set by the administrative team