It’s been established that unequal distribution of physicians contributes to overall healthcare disparities between urban and rural communities. Now, Brigham and Women’s Hospital researchers have demonstrated the same is true for orthopedic trauma outcomes.

Chondrocytes are quite fragile; even minor mechanical insults can result in substantial cell death and graft compromise. A Brigham study determined the optimal technique for harvesting the plugs and found both methods lead to significant mechanical injury at the edge of the explants compared with scalpel incision.

Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital present additional evidence that both subjective and objective measures are of value in assessing functional status in patients with knee osteoarthritis.

In-person exercise programs are well-established to effectively reduce pain in patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA). Elena Losina, PhD, and colleagues recently explored whether the same is true of remote exercise programs.

Michael J. Weaver, MD, and colleagues recently became the first to project the cost implications of severe obesity for treating lower extremity fractures, along with studying its effect on complications and healthcare utilization.

Acute upper arm compartment syndrome is rare, and little has been published about it. Dafang Zhang, MD, of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and colleagues recently described patient characteristics and outcomes.

Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital rationally designed a new antibiotic, VCD-077, to be physiochemically compatible with standard bone cement for local treatment of orthopedic infections with much less chance of resistance.

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.