Most New Devices Not Better After All? (Orthopedics This Week)
In reviewing 118 studies and 15,384 implants, researchers from the Netherlands found that none of five new devices reviewed improved functional or patient reported outcomes and that existing devices may be safer to use.
What are we doing wrong as a field? Marc Nieuwenhuijse, M.D., an orthopedic resident at the Leiden University Medical Center and ICOR research fellow, tells OTW, “Changes in the way of introduction of new orthopedic implants into the commercial market are necessary. The introduction of new orthopedic implants and re...
