Management of long bone fractures and traumatic hip dislocations in paediatric patients: study protocol for a prospective global multicentre observational cohort registry.

Introduction: Management controversy and clinical equipoise exist in treatments of long bone fractures and traumatic hip dislocation in paediatric patients due to the lack of high-quality clinical evidence. This protocol describes the effort of a large prospective global multicentre cohort study (registry) aiming at providing quality data to assist evidence-based treatment decision-making.

Methods And Analysis: Eligible paediatric patients (N=750-1000) with open physes suffering from proximal humerus fractures, distal humerus fractures, proximal radius fractures, forearm shaft fractures, traumatic hip dislocations, femoral neck fractures or tibial shaft fractures will be recruited over a period of 24-36 months.

Generation of Cross-Specialty Consensus Statements on Soft Tissue Management via a Modified Delphi Method.

Background: Soft tissue management (STM) training programs for surgeons are largely tradition based, and substantial differences exist among different surgical specialties. The lack of comprehensive and systematic clinical evidence on how surgical techniques and implants affect soft tissue healing makes it difficult to develop evidence-based curricula. As a curriculum development group (CDG), we set out to find common grounds in the form of a set of consensus statements to serve as the basis for surgical soft tissue education.

Evidence-based evaluation of owner-reported outcome measures for canine orthopedic care - a COSMIN evaluation of 6 instruments.

Objective: To systematically review the currently available validated owner-reported outcome measures (OROMs) for assessing pain and function in dogs with osteoarthritis and other joint diseases.

Study Design: Systematic review.

Methods: A systematic literature search of PubMed and Web of Science was performed in December, 2019, using search terms relevant to OROMs for pain and function in dogs with osteoarthritis and other joint diseases.

Development and challenges in setting up an international bone infection registry.

Introduction: Osteomyelitis is an increasing burden on the society especially due to the emergence of multiple drug-resistant organisms. The lack of a central registry that prospectively collects data on patient risk factors, laboratory test results, treatment modalities, serological analysis results, and outcomes has hampered the research effort that could have improved and provided guidelines for treatments of bone infections. The current manuscript describes the lessons learned in setting up a multi-continent registry.