Annual Meeting Symposium II: New Research Techniques that Every Clinician Needs to Know

Thursday, October 24, 2024

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT

Location: 210CDGH

Moderator(s)

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Robert V. O'Toole, MD

Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery
University of Maryland School of Medicine, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center
Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Financial Disclosures: Imagen: Paid consultant; Stock or stock Options|lincotek (formerly Coorstek): IP royalties|Stryker: IP royalties; Paid consultant|

Faculty(s)

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Nathan N. O'Hara, PhD

Associate Professor
University of Maryland School of Medicine, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center
Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Financial Disclosures: Arbutus Medical Inc.: Stock or stock Options|Pilot and Feasibility Studies: Editorial or governing board|
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Renan Castillo, MD

John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Financial Disclosure: This individual reported nothing to disclose
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Gerard P. Slobogean, MD, MPH

Associate Professsor
University of Maryland School of Medicine, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center
Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Financial Disclosures: Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma: Editorial or governing board|Orthopaedic Trauma Association: Board or committee member|Smith & Nephew: Paid consultant|Zimmer: Paid consultant|
Saam Morshed, MD, PhD, MPH (he/him/his)

Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
University of California, San Francisco
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California, United States

Financial Disclosures: Orthopaedic Trauma Association: Board or committee member|Philips: Paid consultant|SI-Bone, Inc.: Paid consultant|

Orthopaedic trauma is now producing higher quality research, and these studies often utilize research techniques that most clinicians are not familiar with. The knowledge gap is problematic as it prevents the clinicians from adequately evaluating the findings from research studies. This symposium will be aimed at the practicing orthopaedic trauma surgeon with no specialized research training and attempt to provide basic knowledge to better understand research papers utilizing these modern techniques. Research techniques continue to rapidly evolve just as surgical methods change over time. The past decade has had important changes in research techniques that are now appearing in everyday orthopaedic trauma research papers. Bayesian analyses, novel clinical trial designs, different outcome techniques, and new methods for inferring causation from observational data are becoming more common place. The goal of this symposium is to get the practicing clinician up to speed to better evaluate the results of modern research studies.

Learning Objectives:

At the completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

Express why clinicians need to keep up to date on new research topics even if they don't do research.
Distinguish between traditional Frequentist analyses and Bayesian analyses.
Recognize benefits of newer research techniques including modern study designs, new outcome measures and techniques for causal inference.