Purpose Over the past decade, a number of arthroscopic or arthroscopically assisted
reconstruction techniques have emerged for the management of acromioclavicular (AC) …

Purpose To examine surgical complications, length of stay, surgical time, cost, revision rates,
clinical outcomes, current surgical trends. and minimum number of cases in relationship to …

Background Reverse shoulder arthroplasty (RSA) has been Food and Drug Administration
approved in the United States since 2004 but did not obtain a unique code until 2010 …

Background: Increased surgeon volume may be associated with improved outcomes
following operative procedures. However, there is a lack of information on the effect of …

Background This study tests the null hypothesis that, among patients aged 65 and older
admitted to a United States hospital with an isolated fracture of the proximal humerus (no …

Background With technologic advances such as locked periarticular plating,
hemiarthroplasty of the humeral head, and more recently reverse total shoulder …

Purpose The aim of this study was to analyse the factors that influence surgeon decision-
making in the treatment of proximal humerus fractures that might be considered for …

Objective To compare cost estimates for hospital stays calculated using diagnosis‐related
group (DRG) weights to actual Medicare payments. Data Sources/Study Setting Medicare …

Complex proximal humerus fractures in older patients can be treated with hemiarthroplasty
(HA) or reverse shoulder arthroplasty (RSA), with both providing good pain relief and …

Aims The aims of this study were to estimate the cost of surgical treatment of fractures of the
proximal humerus using a micro-costing methodology, contrast this cost with the national …