Collection of Common Knee Patient-reported Outcome Instruments by Automated Mobile Phone Text Messaging in Pediatric Sports Medicine.

Background: Patient-reported outcome (PRO) instruments measure health status in a variety of domains. With the proliferation of mobile phones, delivering PROs across patient-friendly platforms (eg, apps, text messaging) may increase completion rates, particularly among children. The purpose of this study was to validate the collection of common knee PROs in sports medicine with text messaging by correlating text-messaging responses with paper delivery in adolescents.

Perioperative Ketorolac for Supracondylar Humerus Fracture in Children Decreases Postoperative Pain, Opioid Usage, Hospitalization Cost, and Length-of-Stay.

Background: There is a need for improved opioid stewardship in orthopedic surgery through multimodal analgesia strategies. Perioperative administration of ketorolac in children undergoing closed reduction and percutaneous pinning (CRPP) for displaced supracondylar humerus (SCH) fracture may decrease pain, reduce opioid requirements, and decrease hospitalization costs.

Methods: Retrospective case-control investigation of children (aged, 1 to 14) treated with CRPP for closed, modified Gartland type III extension-type SCH fractures at a single children's hospital between 2011 and 2017.