Hospital costs associated with anterior cervical decompression and fusion (ACDF) are highly heterogeneous. Andrew K. Simpson, MD, MBA, MHS, the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and colleagues conducted the first rigorous analysis of the relative drivers of ACDF costs.

Operating rooms (ORs), including orthopedic ORs, contribute substantially to greenhouse gas emissions because of the high amount of energy used and waste generated. A recent review explains steps orthopedic surgeons can take to improve environmental sustainability.

Women constitute about 6% of practicing orthopedic surgeons, but at the Brigham, the ratio is 6 out of 34, or 17.6%. Meet three of the Brigham’s female orthopedic surgical faculty—Antonia Chen, MD, Elizabeth Martin, MD, ScM, and Elizabeth G. Matzkin, MD—all of whom are innovators in research and clinical care.

In a study of patients with lumbar spinal stenosis, researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital previously demonstrated that patients insured by Medicaid have worse baseline PROMs than those commercially insured or insured by Medicare. Now, they’ve found the same is true in the setting of adult spinal deformity (ASD).

Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital determined that within one year after arthroscopic partial meniscectomy (APM), approximately 50% of runners return to their preoperative running frequency.

Surgeons in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital recently reviewed the evidence for and against pronator quadratus (PQ) muscle repair.

In a large sample of prospectively collected data, researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital found that sleep patterns returned to normal within two years after surgery in 81% of patients and within six months in 77%.

Internal fixation with plates and screws is commonly used to treat isolated metacarpal fractures but can cause stiffness and requires subsequent hardware removal. Brigham and Women’s Hospital researchers and colleagues studied factors associated with implant removal in this setting.

Antonia F. Chen, MD, MBA, of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Brigham, Ahmed Siddiqi, DO, MBA, of the Orthopedic Institute of Central Jersey, and colleagues performed a systematic review and meta-analysis comparing bupivacaine with a shorter-acting spinal anesthetic, mepivacaine, during elective TJA.