What's New in Orthopaedic Trauma.

s of these 307 studies were reviewed in duplicate for final inclusion by one of us (P.A.C.). After abstract selection, 136 articles were divided among all authors according to their specialty focus for critical review. Thirty-eight manuscripts were discarded, leaving ninety-eight studies for final inclusion in this update. Consensus on the final studies was achieved. In this review, we summarize the salient findings of twenty-four level-I studies, twenty-seven level-II studies, ten level-III studies, and thirty-six level-IV studies across subspecialties of orthopaedic trauma. Of these, fifty-nine represented studies of therapy, thirty-one involved prognosis, six evaluated diagnostic tests, and one involved economic and decision analyses (see Appendix). One of the final studies, which developed an evidence-based algorithm, was nonclassifiable. Based on positive feedback from last year’s update, we have brought back the basic science section author (T.M. III) to help us to interpret key bench research projects that we believe to have a high level of clinical relevance. Twenty recognized experts were asked to identify the one or two most important trauma-related research articles in their field.