Diversity on the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons National Meeting Podium: Changes Over Two Decades.

Background: There has been an increase in diversity initiatives regarding selecting speakers for the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) annual meeting and courses. The purpose of this study was to determine the percentage of female or underrepresented minority (URM) speakers for instructional course lectures (ICLs) and AAOS courses over the past 2 decades including a surrogate for expertise.

Methods: For 2002, 2012, and 2022, the academic and demographic information of speakers and the number of publications at the time of their speaking role were obtained and compared by sex and URM status.

Treatment Failure After Repair of Displaced Femoral Neck Fractures in Patients Compared by "Decade of Life": An Analysis of 565 Cases in Adults Less Than 60 years of Age.

Objectives: To study the results of displaced femoral neck fractures (FNFs) in adults less than 60 years of age by comparing patients, injury, treatment, and the characteristics of treatment failure specifically according to patients' age at injury, that is, by their "decade of life" [ie, "under 30" (29 years and younger), "the 30s" (30-39 years), "the 40s" (40-49 years), and "the 50s" (50-59 years)].

Design: Multicenter retrospective comparative cohort series.

Setting: Twenty-six North American Level 1 Trauma Centers.

Optimal Fixation Strategies for Displaced Femoral Neck Fractures in Patients 18-59 Years of Age: An Analysis of 565 Cases Treated at 26 Level 1 Trauma Centers.

Objectives: The objective of this study was to determine the difference in failure rates of surgical repair for displaced femoral neck fractures in patients younger than 60 years of age according to fixation strategy.

Design: This is a retrospective, comparative cohort study.

Setting: Twenty-six Level 1 North American trauma centers.

Minimal Clinically Important Difference (MCID) for the Short Musculoskeletal Function Assessment (SMFA) in Severe Lower Extremity Trauma: Pooled Data from 7 Multicenter, Prospective Clinical Trials.

Background: The Short Musculoskeletal Function Assessment (SMFA) is a well validated, widely used patient-reported outcome (PRO) measure for orthopaedic patients. Despite its widespread use and acceptance, this measure does not have an agreed upon minimal clinically important difference (MCID). The purpose of the present study was to create distributional MCIDs with use of a large cohort of research participants with severe lower extremity fractures.