Published in:
01-10-2015 | Editorial
Editorial: Case Closed—Discontinuing Case Reports in Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
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Author:
Seth S. Leopold, MD
Published in:
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®
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Issue 10/2015
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Excerpt
The editors of Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research ® use the editorial pages of the Journal to raise the profile of many topics: The ethics of publication and of surgical practice, the education of surgical trainees, the conflicts of interest that arise in science and medicine, the language we use in scientific reporting, and numerous others. But perhaps the most-frequent subject we write about in editorials is scientific evidence. What constitutes high-quality evidence? How can readers evaluate it? How can surgeons put it to use in their practices? We return to these issues regularly because they are both important and deeply nuanced. …