Resources for Orthopaedic Journal Clubs

Supplement: Design, Conduct, and Interpretation of Nonrandomized Orthopaedic Studies—A Practical Approach

  • Design, Conduct, and Interpretation of Nonrandomized Orthopaedic Studies: A Practical Approach. (All) Evidence Matters
  • Hierarchy of Evidence: Where Observational Studies Fit in and Why We Need Them
  • Principles of Designing a Cohort Study in Orthopaedics
  • Principles of Designing an Orthopaedic Case-Control Study
  • How to Design a Good Case Series
  • Survey Design in Orthopaedic Surgery: Getting Surgeons to Respond
  • Outcome Measures and Implications for Sample-Size Calculations
  • Outcome Instruments: Rationale for Their Use
  • Analysis of Observational Studies: A Guide to Understanding Statistical Methods
  • Authorship and Ethical Considerations in the Conduct of Observational Studies
  • The Use of Hospital Registries in Orthopaedic Surgery
  • Using Observational Data for Decision Analysis and Economic Analysis
  • Multicenter Collaboration in Observational Research: Improving Generalizability and Efficiency
  • Methodological Issues in Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses of Observational Studies in Orthopaedic Research
  • An Evidence-Based Approach to the Adoption of New Technology
  • Evaluating Agreement: Conducting a Reliability Study
  • Qualitative Research: A Review of Methods with Use of Examples from the Total Knee Replacement Literature
   Introducing Levels of Evidence to The Journal
James G. Wright, Marc F. Swiontkowski and James D. Heckman (PDF file)
Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics: An Orthopaedic Primer
Mininder S. Kocher MD, MPH, and David Zurakowski, PhD (PDF file)
Meta-Analyses in Orthopaedic Surgery: A Systematic Review of Their Methodologies
Mohit Bhandari, Farrah Morrow, Abhaya V. Kulkarni and Paul Tornetta, III (PDF file)
Current Concepts Review. User's Guide to the Orthopaedic Literature: How to Use an Article About a Surgical Therapy
Mohit Bhandari, Gordon H. Guyatt and Marc F. Swiontkowski (PDF file)
Current Concepts Review. User's Guide to the Orthopaedic Literature: How to Use an Article About Prognosis
Mohit Bhandari, Gordon H. Guyatt and Marc F. Swiontkowski (PDF file)
Current Concepts Review. User's Guide to the Orthopaedic Literature: How to Use a Systematic Literature Review
Mohit Bhandari, Gordon H. Guyatt, Victor Montori, P. J. Devereaux and Marc F. Swiontkowski (PDF file)
Current Concepts Review. User's Guide to the Surgical Literature: How to Use an Article About a Diagnostic Test
Mohit Bhandari, Victor M. Montori, Marc F. Swiontkowski and Gordon H. Guyatt (PDF file)
Topics in Training. The Intention-to-Treat Principle: A Primer for the Orthopaedic Surgeon
Vikrant K. Bubbar and Hans J. Kreder (PDF file)
Editorial. The Case Report
Henry R. Cowell (PDF file)
Critical Analysis Literature Review
Reproduced with permission of the Boston University Medical Center Department of Orthopaedic Surgery (PDF file)
Evidence-based Medicine Systematic Literature Review.
Reproduced, with permission, from Spindler KP et al.: Reading and Reviewing the Orthopaedic Literature: A Systematic, Evidence-based Medicine Approach. J Am Acad Orthop Surg, Vol 13, No 4, July/August 2005, 220-229. (PDF file)
Statistics in orthopaedic papers
A. Petrie