Background: The minimum clinically important difference (MCID) attempts to define the
patient's experience of treatment outcomes. Efforts at calculating the MCID have yielded …

This review paper on femoral neck fractures in the elderly provides updated information from
the most recent literature and examines the advantages and disadvantages of different …

We conducted a systematic review of pain assessment tools suitable for community-dwelling
older adults. For this work, we conceptualized existing psychometric tools as falling under …

Epigenetics play a key role in the origin, development and metastasis of cancer. Epigenetic
processes include DNA methylation, histone acetylation, histone methylation, and histone …

Background: Recent work has suggested good clinical and functional results with dorsal
surface plating of patellar fractures. The primary outcome measurement of this study was …

Introduction Adopting the direct lateral (DL) instead of the posterolateral (PL) approach in
hip arthroplasty for femoral neck fracture (FNF) patients could lower the rate of prosthetic …

Purpose. The HHS was initially developed for the assessment of the results of hip surgery,
specifically mold arthroplasties for posttraumatic osteoarthritis of the hip, in 1969 (2). It is …

Abstract Background Context Introduced in 2007, the Japanese Orthopaedic Association
Back Pain Evaluation Questionnaire (JOABPEQ) has been widely used, but its psychometric …

Background A large number of patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) have been
developed in the English language for various lower extremity orthopaedic pathologies …

Background: Heterotopic ossification (HO) is a frequent complication following hip surgery.
Using data from the Hip Fracture Evaluation with Alternatives of Total Hip Arthroplasty …