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2021, 'Placebo response and effect in randomized clinical trials: meta-research with focus on contextual effects', Trials, 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-021-05454-8
,2021, 'Rates, costs, return to work and reoperation following spinal surgery in a workers’ compensation cohort in New South Wales, 2010–2018: a cohort study using administrative data', BMC Health Services Research, 21, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-06900-8
,2021, 'Effectiveness of Oxycodone Hydrochloride (Strong Opioid) vs Combination Acetaminophen and Codeine (Mild Opioid) for Subacute Pain after Fractures Managed Surgically: A Randomized Clinical Trial', JAMA Network Open, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.34988
,2021, 'How doctors are betraying the Hippocratic oath', The BMJ, 375, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n2807
,2021, 'Non-compliance with clinical guidelines increases the risk of complications after primary total hip and knee joint replacement surgery', PLoS ONE, 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260146
,2021, 'Online Information About the Effectiveness of Shoulder Surgery Is Not Based on the Best Available Evidence: A Content Analysis', Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 102, pp. 2141 - 2149.e2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2021.03.041
,2021, 'Erratum: Arthroscopic partial meniscectomy: did it ever work?', Acta Orthop, 93, pp. 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17453674.2021.1994233
,2021, 'Does a Prescription-based Comorbidity Index Correlate with the American Society of Anesthesiologists Physical Status Score and Mortality after Joint Arthroplasty? A Registry Study', Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, 479, pp. 2181 - 2190, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/CORR.0000000000001895
,2021, 'Effectiveness of a multifaceted intervention to improve emergency department care of low back pain: A stepped-wedge, cluster-randomised trial', BMJ Quality and Safety, 30, pp. 825 - 835, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2020-012337
,2021, 'Has the reporting of patient-important outcomes improved in surgical trials? A meta-epidemiological study', ANZ Journal of Surgery, 91, pp. 2014 - 2020, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ans.16922
,2021, 'Low back pain presentations to New South Wales emergency departments: Trends over time and geographical variation', EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia, 33, pp. 868 - 874, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1742-6723.13745
,2021, 'Spinal cord stimulation for low back pain', Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2021, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD014789
,2021, 'The Association Between Preoperative Patient-Reported Health Status and Postoperative Survey Completion Following Arthroplasty: Registry-Based Cohort Study (Preprint)', , http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/preprints.33414
,2021, '1379Has the reporting quality of published randomised controlled trial protocols improved since the SPIRIT statement?', International Journal of Epidemiology, 50, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyab168.645
,2021, 'How much change in symptoms do spinal surgeons expect following lumbar decompression and microdiscectomy?', Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, 91, pp. 243 - 248, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jocn.2021.07.005
,2021, 'Observing the use of knee arthroplasty appropriateness tools in clinical practice: do appropriateness criteria tools predict surgeon decision-making?', Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 29, pp. 1275 - 1281, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joca.2021.06.009
,2021, 'Patient and hospital factors influencing discharge destination following hip fracture', Australasian Journal on Ageing, 40, pp. e234 - e243, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajag.12905
,2021, 'Development of a patient decision aid on subacromial decompression surgery and rotator cuff repair surgery: An international mixed-methods study', BMJ Open, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-054032
,2021, 'Diagnostic labels for rotator cuff disease can increase people’s perceived need for shoulder surgery: An online randomized controlled trial', Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy, 51, pp. 401 - 411, http://dx.doi.org/10.2519/jospt.2021.10375
,2021, 'Patient factors associated with referral to inpatient rehabilitation following knee or hip arthroplasty in a public sector cohort: A prognostic factor study', Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 27, pp. 809 - 816, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jep.13479
,2021, 'Prescription Opioids Higher Among Knee Arthroplasty Recipients Randomized to Inpatient Rehabilitation', ACR Open Rheumatology, 3, pp. 573 - 577, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/acr2.11304
,2021, 'What do people post on social media relative to low back pain? A content analysis of Australian data', Musculoskeletal Science and Practice, 54, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.msksp.2021.102402
,2021, 'Are responders to patient health surveys representative of those invited to participate? An analysis of the Patient-Reported Outcome Measures Pilot from the Australian Orthopaedic Association National Joint Replacement Registry', PLoS ONE, 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254196
,2021, 'Impact of pre-surgery hospital transfer on time to surgery and 30-day mortality for people with hip fractures', Medical Journal of Australia, 215, pp. 87 - 88, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja2.51083
,2021, 'Patient, surgical and hospital factors associated with the presence of a consultant surgeon during hip fracture surgery. Do we know the answer?', ANZ Journal of Surgery, 91, pp. 1435 - 1440, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ans.16867
,2021, 'Association between number of replacements and readmissions following total knee and total hip replacements in New South Wales' public hospitals', ANZ Journal of Surgery, 91, pp. 1277 - 1283, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ans.16882
,2021, 'Implications for research and clinical use from a Rasch analysis of the HOOS-12 and KOOS-12 instruments', Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 29, pp. 824 - 833, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joca.2021.02.568
,2021, 'Patient-reported outcomes after hip and knee arthroplasty RESULTS FROM A LARGE NATIONAL REGISTRY', Bone and Joint Open, 2, pp. 422 - 432, http://dx.doi.org/10.1302/2633-1462.26.BJO-2021-0053.R1
,2021, 'Performance of the HOOS-12 and KOOS-12 instruments for evaluating outcomes from joint replacement surgery', Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 29, pp. 815 - 823, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joca.2021.03.003
,2021, 'National Implementation of an Electronic Patient-Reported Outcome Measures Program for Joint Replacement Surgery: Pilot Study (Preprint)', , http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/preprints.30245
,2021, 'Arithmetic hip-knee-ankle angle (aHKA): An algorithm for estimating constitutional lower limb alignment in the arthritic patient population', Bone and Joint Open, 2, pp. 351 - 358, http://dx.doi.org/10.1302/2633-1462.25.BJO-2021-0028.R1
,2021, 'Does identifying frailty from ICD-10 coded data on hospital admission improve prediction of adverse outcomes in older surgical patients? A population-based study', Age and Ageing, 50, pp. 802 - 808, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaa214
,2021, 'Online Decision Aids for Knee Arthroplasty: An Environmental Scan', JBJS Reviews, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.2106/JBJS.RVW.20.00088
,2021, '“I would not go to him”: Focus groups exploring community responses to a public health campaign aimed at reducing unnecessary diagnostic imaging of low back pain', Health Expectations, 24, pp. 648 - 658, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hex.13211
,2021, 'Challenges faced by musculoskeletal health research in Australia and New Zealand due to the COVID-19 pandemic', Internal Medicine Journal, 51, pp. 622, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/imj.15254
,2021, 'Healthcare expenditure and its predictors in a cohort of Australians living with sciatica', European Spine Journal, 30, pp. 878 - 885, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00586-020-06605-2
,2021, 'Intramedullary nailing versus sliding hip screw for A1 and A2 trochanteric hip fractures: WHAT FACTORS INFLUENCE SURGEONS' CHOICE OF IMPLANT?', Bone and Joint Journal, 103 B, pp. 775 - 781, http://dx.doi.org/10.1302/0301-620X.103B.BJJ-2020-1490.R1
,2021, 'Surgical Plating vs Closed Reduction for Fractures in the Distal Radius in Older Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial', JAMA Surgery, 156, pp. 229 - 237, http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamasurg.2020.5672
,2021, 'Revision Risk after Unipolar or Bipolar Hemiarthroplasty for Femoral Neck Fractures: An Instrumental Variable Analysis of 62,875 Procedures from the Australian Orthopaedic Association National Joint Replacement Registry', Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 103, pp. 195 - 204, http://dx.doi.org/10.2106/JBJS.20.00486
,2021, 'A comparison of the distribution of Medical Research Future Fund grants with disease burden in Australia', Medical Journal of Australia, 214, pp. 111 - 113.e1, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja2.50916
,2021, 'Aspirin versus enoxaparin for the initial prevention of venous thromboembolism following elective arthroplasty of the hip or knee: A systematic review and meta-analysis', Orthopaedics and Traumatology: Surgery and Research, 107, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.otsr.2020.04.002
,2021, 'Aspirin versus enoxaparin for the initial prevention of venous thromboembolism following elective arthroplasty of the hip or knee: A systematic review and meta-analysis', Revue de Chirurgie Orthopedique et Traumatologique, 107, pp. 44 - 45, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rcot.2020.04.010
,2021, 'Coronal Plane Alignment of the Knee (CPAK) classification a new system for describing knee phenotypes', Bone and Joint Journal, 103 B, pp. 329 - 337, http://dx.doi.org/10.1302/0301-620X.103B2.BJJ-2020-1050.R1
,2021, 'Does the Use of Intraoperative Pressure Sensors for Knee Balancing in Total Knee Arthroplasty Improve Clinical Outcomes? A Comparative Study With a Minimum Two-Year Follow-Up', Journal of Arthroplasty, 36, pp. 514 - 519, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.arth.2020.08.025
,2021, 'Surgeon-defined assessment is a poor predictor of knee balance in total knee arthroplasty: a prospective, multicenter study', Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy, 29, pp. 498 - 506, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00167-020-05925-6
,2021, 'Volar Locking Plate Fixation Versus Closed Reduction for Distal Radial Fractures in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis', JBJS Reviews, 9, pp. e20.00022, http://dx.doi.org/10.2106/JBJS.RVW.20.00022
,2021, 'Access to rehabilitation services for older adults living with dementia or in a residential aged care facility following a hip fracture: healthcare professionals’ views', Disability and Rehabilitation, 43, pp. 834 - 845, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2019.1643418
,2021, 'Association between pre-operative anxiety and/or depression and outcomes following total hip or knee arthroplasty', Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery, 29, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2309499021992605
,2021, 'Development of an early activation hip fracture care bundle and implementation strategy to improve adherence to the national hip fracture clinical care standard', Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, 14, pp. 2891 - 2903, http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/JMDH.S323678
,2021, 'Is there a reason to challenge our current practice in children’s forearm fractures?', Acta Orthopaedica, 92, pp. 127 - 128, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17453674.2020.1854505
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