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CMS Missing the Mark on Bundled Payments, Experts Say Current measures for bundled payments miss the mark, authors write. They suggest a framework that answers three questions: Was the treatment appropriate? Did the patient improve? What did care cost?
Medscape Medical News, April 10, 2018
Better Outcomes Seen With Multimodal Analgesia for Joint Replacement Multimodal pain management is associated with fewer perioperative complications, less opioid use and shorter hospital stays, according to a database study of more than 1.5 million joint replacements.
Reuters Health Information, March 19, 2018

Sports Medicine Can Do Without Opioids Dr Bert Mandelbaum on how to avoid opioids in postsurgical pain management.
Medscape Orthopedics, February 27, 2018
AAOS 2018 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from AAOS 2018.
Medscape Orthopedics, February 26, 2018

Better Arthroplasty Outcomes, Hope in Scleroderma, and More
Hospital for Special Surgery, January 3, 2018
2017 Advances in Rheumatology
Medscape Rheumatology, December 29, 2017
How Sports Empower Women
Medscape Orthopedics, December 1, 2017
A New Rheumatic Disease?
Hospital for Special Surgery, November 30, 2017

Facility Ownership and Arthroscopic Shoulder Surgery Use
Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, April 17, 2018
Consequences of Continuing ACEIs/ARBs in the Preop Period
BMC Anesthesiology, April 12, 2018
Psychological Factors Affecting Shoulder Surgery Outcomes
Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, April 10, 2018
Intrathecal Morphine and Postop Pain in Knee Arthroplasty
BMC Anesthesiology, April 5, 2018
Compliance With the AAOS Guidelines for Treatment of Knee OA
Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, April 3, 2018