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  • Autograft and allograft anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction in patients older than 40 years have similar short-term patient-reported outcomes with greater rates of anterior cruciate ligament graft failure in patients who receive allograft. 
    Arthroscopy. 2025
  • Cost drivers for single-tendon rotator cuff repair: day-of-surgery time-driven activity-based costing analysis. 
    JB & JS open access. 2025
  • Effect of handedness on patient-reported outcomes after operative treatment of CMC arthritis. 
    Hand (New York, N.Y.). 2025
  • Effect of postoperative NSAID use on opioid consumption after rotator cuff repair. 
    Journal of orthopaedics. 2025
  • Frustrations in providing orthopaedic trauma care: an OTA member survey study. 
    Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma. 2025
  • Increased surgical costs do not result in improved patient-reported outcomes: a study of 173 patients who underwent thumb carpometacarpal joint arthroplasty. 
    Hand (New York, N.Y.). 2025
  • Measurement of value in uncomplicated total knee arthroplasty: patient-level and provider-level value analyses of a 1-year episode of care. 
    Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American Volume). 2025
  • Minimum clinically important difference for oswestry disability index three months following lumbar discectomy is lower when anchored to patient leg pain symptoms. 
    Spine. 2025
  • Patient-reported and clinical outcomes up to two years after primary rotator cuff repair: do we need to collect patient-reported outcome at two-year follow-up visit?. 
    Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery. 2025
  • Similar two-year improvement in patient-reported outcomes in patients 40 years and older with outerbridge grade III and IV lesions following ACL reconstruction. 
    Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy. 2025
  • Variation in technique influences surgical cost in thumb carpometacarpal joint arthroplasty. 
    Orthopedics. 2025
  • Early versus delayed definitive fixation relative to fasciotomy closure in high-energy tibial plateau fractures with compartment syndrome. 
    Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma. 2024
  • Effect of post-operative NSAID use on rotator cuff repair outcomes. 
    Journal of orthopaedics. 2024
  • Functional outcomes after nonoperative management in older adult low-energy stable and unstable ankle fractures: a retrospective review of 158 patients. 
    Geriatric orthopaedic surgery & rehabilitation. 2024
  • Generic volar locking plate use in distal radius fractures: a prospective randomized study to evaluate clinical outcomes and cost reduction. 
    Hand (New York, N.Y.). 2024
  • Hip fracture patterns, hospital course, and mortality differ between males and females. 
    Geriatric orthopaedic surgery & rehabilitation. 2024
  • Improved patient-reported outcomes in patients aged 16 and younger at two years after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction despite relatively high rates of reinjury and repeat surgery. 
    Journal of Pediatric Orthopedics. 2024
  • Limb length discrepancy after intraosseous line malpositioning: a case report. 
    JBJS case connector. 2024
  • Outcomes of name-brand versus generic cephalomedullary nail fixation for intertrochanteric and subtrochanteric fractures: a matched cohort study. 
    Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Global research & reviews. 2024
  • Patient-level value analysis in total hip arthroplasty: optimizing the value of care delivery. 
    Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American Volume). 2024
    • Review
  • Value-based care in orthopaedic surgery: outcomes, costing, and policy updates [review]. 
    Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American Volume). 2025
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