The Student You Know: Orthopedic Surgery Home Program Match Rates and Geographic Relationships Before and After COVID-19.

Objective: In March 2020, COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. This led to the outright cancellation of away rotations and in person residency interviews for the class of 2021. This study aims to identify the geographic relationships in the orthopedic match and further explore COVID-19's effect on these geographic relationships.

Optimal Synovial Fluid Leukocyte Count Cutoff for Diagnosing Native Joint Septic Arthritis After Antibiotics: A Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis of Accuracy.

Introduction: Urgent treatment of septic arthritis is key in preventing devastating morbidity or mortality. Accurate diagnosis is critical, and the standard diagnostic cutoff of 50,000 synovial leukocytes may be altered by previous administration of antibiotics. Our objective was to identify and compare a cutoff synovial leukocyte count with a high sensitivity and specificity for diagnosis of septic arthritis in patients who received antibiotics and those who had not.