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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "I'm Leaving": Factors That Impact Against Medical Advice Disposition Post-Trauma. 
  • A Contemporary Analysis of Combat-related Urological Injuries: Data From the Department of Defense Trauma Registry. 
  • A brief report: the use of high-frequency oscillatory ventilation for severe pulmonary contusion. 
  • A pilot study of the use of biocide-impregnated gauze as an adjunct to wound care in a burn population. 
  • A prospective registry evaluating the epidemiology and clinical care of traumatic brain injury patients presenting to a regional referral hospital in Moshi, Tanzania: challenges and the way forward. 
  • A retrospective analysis of facial fracture etiologies. 
  • A single urban center experience with adult pedestrians struck by motor vehicles. 
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Penetrating Trauma-Lower Abdomen and Pelvis. 
  • Achilles rupture in the athlete. Current science and treatment. 
  • Acute Rupture Open Repair Techniques. 
  • Admission oxygenation and ventilation parameters associated with discharge survival in severe pediatric traumatic brain injury. 
  • Aggressive early crystalloid resuscitation adversely affects outcomes in adult blunt trauma patients: an analysis of the Glue Grant database. 
  • Algorithm for Management of Periprosthetic Ankle Fractures. 
  • Amputation versus limb salvage. 
  • An Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma multicenter trial examining prehospital procedures in penetrating trauma patients. 
  • An analysis of police transport in an Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma multicenter trial examining prehospital procedures in penetrating trauma patients. 
  • An integrative model using flow cytometry identifies nosocomial infection after trauma. 
  • Applying the Keystone Design Perforator Island Flap Concept in a Variety of Anatomic Locations: A Review of 60 Consecutive Cases by a Single Surgeon. 
  • Articular fractures. 
  • Assessment of injury to the posterior ligamentous complex in thoracolumbar spine trauma. 
  • Associations Between Slower Walking Speed and T1ρ Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Femoral Cartilage Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction. 
  • Base deficit as a marker of survival after traumatic injury: consistent across changing patient populations and resuscitation paradigms. 
  • Blunt vascular injuries of the head and neck: is heparinization necessary? 
  • Can Vascular Injury be Appropriately Assessed With Physical Examination After Knee Dislocation? 
  • Catechol-O-methyltransferase genotype predicts pain severity in hospitalized burn patients. 
  • Characteristics of palliative care consultation at an academic level one trauma center. 
  • Chondral Lesions of the Knee: An Evidence-Based Approach. 
  • Clinical risk factors and inflammatory biomarkers of post-traumatic acute kidney injury in combat patients. 
  • Coagulopathy is prevalent and associated with adverse outcomes in transfused pediatric trauma patients. 
  • Comparative effectiveness of treatment strategies for severe splenic trauma in the pediatric population. 
  • Comparison of helicopter versus ground transport for the interfacility transport of isolated spinal injury. 
  • Comparison of surgical outcomes of intra-articular calcaneal fractures by age. 
  • Comparison of synovial fluid cartilage marker concentrations and chondral damage assessed arthroscopically in acute knee injury. 
  • Concealed degloving injury (the Morel-Lavallée lesion) in childhood sports: a case report. 
  • Confusion regarding mechanisms of injury in the setting of thoracolumbar spinal trauma: a survey of The Spine Trauma Study Group (STSG). 
  • Consensus in chronic ankle instability: aetiology, assessment, surgical indications and place for arthroscopy. 
  • Controlled survival study of the effects of Tisseel or a combination of FloSeal and Tisseel on major vascular injury and major collecting-system injury during partial nephrectomy in a porcine model. 
  • Corrective osteotomy for isolated malunion of the palmar lunate facet in distal radius fractures. 
  • Cost-based decision analysis of postreduction imaging in the management of mandibular fractures. 
  • Current use and outcomes of helicopter transport in pediatric trauma: a review of 18,291 transports. 
  • Development and validation of a revised trauma-specific quality of life instrument. 
  • Do flexion extension plain films facilitate treatment after trauma? 
  • Early trauma induced coagulopathy (ETIC): prevalence across the injury spectrum. 
  • Early versus delayed amputation in the setting of severe lower extremity trauma. 
  • Endoscopic repair of a hypopharyngeal laceration in a professional sword-swallower. 
  • Endovascular treatment of a traumatic visceral aneurysm. 
  • Epithelial-mesenchymal transition, TGF-β, and osteopontin in wound healing and tissue remodeling after injury. 
  • Evaluating the use and utility of noninvasive angiography in diagnosing traumatic blunt cerebrovascular injury. 
  • Evaluation of the North Country on the Job Network: a model of facilitated care for injured workers in rural upstate New York. 
  • Evidence-based guidelines are equivalent to a liberal computed tomography scan protocol for initial patient evaluation but are associated with decreased computed tomography scan use, cost, and radiation exposure. 
  • Facial fractures of the upper craniofacial skeleton predict mortality and occult intracranial injury after blunt trauma: an analysis. 
  • Factors Associated With Long-term Outcomes After Injury: Results of the Functional Outcomes and Recovery After Trauma Emergencies (FORTE) Multicenter Cohort Study. 
  • Factors Associated With Triage Decisions in Older Adult Trauma Patients: Impact on Mortality and Morbidity. 
  • Falls in an acute hospital and their relationship to restraint use. 
  • Femur fractures and lung complications: a prospective randomized study of reaming. 
  • Field-Triage, Hospital-Triage and Triage-Assessment: A Literature Review of the Current Phases of Adult Trauma Triage. 
  • Fixation of the coronoid process in elbow fracture-dislocations. 
  • Fractures in myelomeningocele. 
  • Frailty and length of stay in older adults with blunt injury in a national multicentre prospective cohort study. 
  • Guest editorial: Cognitive-communication rehabilitation for combat-related mild traumatic brain injury. 
  • Gunshot wounds: bullet caliber is increasing, 1998-2003. 
  • Helping clinicians who care for trauma survivors. 
  • Higher mortality in pediatric and adult trauma patients with traumatic coagulopathy, using age-adjusted diagnostic criteria. 
  • INternational ORthopaedic MUlticentre Study (INORMUS) in Fracture Care: Protocol for a Large Prospective Observational Study. 
  • Identifying Factors Most Important to Lower Extremity Trauma Patients: Key Concepts from the Development of a Patient-Reported Outcome Instrument for Lower Extremity Trauma, The LIMB-Q. 
  • Importance of delayed imaging for blunt renal trauma. 
  • Incidence and severity of acute complications after spinal cord injury. 
  • Incidence of asymptomatic pulmonary embolism in moderately to severely injured trauma patients. 
  • Increased incidence of sepsis and altered monocyte functions in severely injured type A- glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase-deficient African American trauma patients. 
  • Increased risk of deep venous thrombosis with endovascular cooling in patients with traumatic head injury. 
  • Indirect signs of blunt duodenal injury on computed tomography: Is non-operative management safe? 
  • Informal social status among coworkers and risk of work-related injury among nurse aides in long-term care. 
  • Initial management of pediatric head trauma. 
  • Interpretation of Post-operative Distal Humerus Radiographs After Internal Fixation: Prediction of Later Loss of Fixation. 
  • Intraoperative adherence to a low tidal volume ventilation strategy in critically ill patients with preexisting acute lung injury. 
  • Is the Face an Air Bag for the Brain and Torso?-The Potential Protective Effects of Severe Midface Fractures. 
  • Local Burn Injury Promotes Defects in the Epidermal Lipid and Antimicrobial Peptide Barriers in Human Autograft Skin and Burn Margin: Implications for Burn Wound Healing and Graft Survival. 
  • Long term outcome of blunt trauma care in the elderly. 
  • Long-term follow-up of unsuccessful violent suicide attempts: risk factors for subsequent attempts. 
  • Longitudinal Predictors of Criminal Arrest After Traumatic Brain Injury: Results From the Traumatic Brain Injury Model System National Database. 
  • Lower education and income predict worse long-term outcomes after injury. 
  • Management of pediatric intracranial gunshot wounds: predictors of favorable clinical outcome and a new proposed treatment paradigm. 
  • Management of pediatric trauma. 
  • Medicolegal aspects of foot and ankle surgery. 
  • Medicolegal issues in sports medicine. 
  • Minimal trauma fractures: lifting the specter of misconduct by identifying risk factors and planning for prevention. 
  • Muscle versus Fasciocutaneous Free Flaps in Lower Extremity Traumatic Reconstruction: A Multicenter Outcomes Analysis. 
  • Nonfatal tool- or equipment-related injuries treated in US emergency departments among workers in the construction industry, 1998-2005. 
  • Nonoperative management of nonvascular grade IV blunt renal trauma in children: meta-analysis and systematic review. 
  • Novel Airway and Ventilator Management of Tracheobronchial Disruption After Blunt Trauma. 
  • Number of rib fractures thresholds independently predict worse outcomes in older patients with blunt trauma. 
  • Objective structured assessment of technical skills for repair of fourth-degree perineal lacerations. 
  • One-year and three-year mortality prediction in adult major blunt trauma survivors: a National Retrospective Cohort Analysis. 
  • Open calcaneal fractures: results of operative treatment. 
  • Operative Treatment of Pediatric Pelvic and Acetabulum Fractures. 
  • Operative vs nonoperative management for blunt pancreatic transection in children: multi-institutional outcomes. 
  • Optimizing Successful Outcomes in Complex Spine Reconstruction Using Local Muscle Flaps. 
  • Orthopaedic trauma for the general orthopaedist: avoiding problems and pitfalls in treatment. 
  • Pain as an indication for rib fixation: a bi-institutional pilot study. 
  • Patient, Therapist, and System Factors Influencing the Effectiveness of Prolonged Exposure for Veterans With Comorbid Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury. 
  • Pediatric Orthopedic Trauma: An Evidence-Based Approach. 
  • Pediatric injury patterns by year of age. 
  • Pediatric nurses' perceived knowledge and beliefs of evidence-based practice in the care of children and adolescents with moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury. 
  • Persistent Pain Among Older Adults Discharged Home From the Emergency Department After Motor Vehicle Crash: A Prospective Cohort Study. 
  • Physical examination tests for assessing a torn meniscus in the knee: a systematic review with meta-analysis. 
  • Posterolateral Knee Reconstruction Versus Repair. 
  • Practice management guidelines for the screening of thoracolumbar spine fracture. 
  • Pre- and in-hospital mortality for moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injuries: an analysis of the National Trauma Data Bank (2008-2014). 
  • Predictors of mortality, hospital utilization, and the role of race in outcomes in head and neck trauma. 
  • Primary blast survival and injury risk assessment for repeated blast exposures. 
  • Pulmonary aspects of treatment of long bone fractures in the polytrauma patient. 
  • Pulmonary injury risk assessment for long-duration blasts: a meta-analysis. 
  • Race and Ethnicity Have a Mixed Effect on the Treatment of Tibial Plateau Fractures. 
  • Race and Insurance Status as Predictors of Bicycle Trauma Outcome in Adults. 
  • Racial disparities in post-discharge healthcare utilization after trauma. 
  • Random forest modeling can predict infectious complications following trauma laparotomy. 
  • Ranitidine improves lymphocyte function after severe head injury: results of a randomized, double-blind study. 
  • Rehabilitation following extensor tendon repair. 
  • Reliability and validity of the International Knee Documentation Committee (IKDC) Subjective Knee Form. 
  • Resilience, spirituality, distress and tactics for battered women's conflict resolution 
  • Retrospective, propensity score-matched cohort study examining timing of fracture fixation for traumatic thoracolumbar fractures. 
  • Rib Fracture Location Should Be Evaluated When Predicting Morbidity and Mortality in Trauma Patients. 
  • Risk factors for infection and amputation following open, combat-related calcaneal fractures. 
  • Routine inclusion of long-term functional and patient-reported outcomes into trauma registries: The FORTE project. 
  • Scaphoid nonunions treated with 2 headless compression screws and bone grafting. 
  • Second metatarsal stress fracture in sport: comparative risk factors between proximal and non-proximal locations. 
  • Serious Fall Injuries Before and After Initiation of Hemodialysis Among Older ESRD Patients in the United States: A Retrospective Cohort Study. 
  • Serum cleaved tau does not predict postconcussion syndrome after mild traumatic brain injury. 
  • Severe traumatic head injury affects systemic cytokine expression. 
  • Short bowel syndrome after trauma. 
  • Short- and Long-Term Outcomes following Severe Traumatic Lower Extremity Reconstruction: The Value of an Orthoplastic Limb Salvage Center to Racially Underserved Communities. 
  • Short-term outcomes of splenectomy avoidance in trauma patients. 
  • Shorter times to packed red blood cell transfusion are associated with decreased risk of death in traumatically injured patients. 
  • Single Assessment Numeric Evaluation (SANE) correlates with American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons score and Western Ontario Rotator Cuff index in patients undergoing arthroscopic rotator cuff repair. 
  • Socioeconomics affecting quality outcomes in Asian trauma patients within the United States. 
  • Stress fractures and stress reactions of the diaphyseal femur in collegiate athletes: an analysis of 25 cases. 
  • Successful nonoperative management of the most severe blunt liver injuries: a multicenter study of the research consortium of new England centers for trauma. 
  • Sugar-coating wound repair: a review of FGF-10 and dermatan sulfate in wound healing and their potential application in burn wounds. 
  • Supplemental Oxygen Requirements of Critically Injured Adults: An Observational Trial. 
  • Survival after traumatic brain injury improves with deployment of neurosurgeons: a comparison of US and UK military treatment facilities during the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. 
  • Temporal trends in the incidence of severe pelvic fracture urethral injuries in the United States from 1998 to 2014. 
  • The Controversy Surrounding the Treatment of Deltoid and Syndesmotic Injuries of the Ankle: Is There Any Consensus? 
  • The Effect of Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs on Tendon-to-Bone Healing: A Systematic Review with Subgroup Meta-Analysis. 
  • The Relationship between Hand Therapy and Long-Term Outcomes after Distal Radius Fracture in Older Adults: Evidence from the Randomized Wrist and Radius Injury Surgical Trial. 
  • The Use of Liposomal Bupivacaine Administered With Standard Bupivacaine in Ankle Fractures Requiring Open Reduction Internal Fixation: A Single-Blinded Randomized Controlled Trial. 
  • The effect of anticoagulation on outcomes after liver and spleen injuries: A research consortium of New England centers for trauma (ReCONECT) study. 
  • The effect of frontal air bags on eye injury patterns in automobile crashes. 
  • The effect of past-injury on pain threshold and tolerance. 
  • The influence of triage systems and triage scores on timeliness of ED analgesic administration. 
  • The rapid impact on mortality rates of a dedicated care team including trauma and emergency physicians at an academic medical center. 
  • Thiazide use is associated with reduced risk for incident lower extremity fractures in men with spinal cord injury. 
  • Timing of tracheostomy after anterior cervical spine fixation. 
  • Towards precision medicine: Accurate predictive modeling of infectious complications in combat casualties. 
  • Transcardiopulmonary vs pulmonary arterial thermodilution methods for hemodynamic monitoring of burned patients. 
  • Transfusion for shock in US military war casualties with and without tourniquet use 
  • Traumatic Brain Injury in the Elderly: Burden, Risk Factors, and Prevention. 
  • Traumatic valgus instability of the elbow: pathoanatomy and results of direct repair. Surgical technique. 
  • Trend and geographic analysis for traumatic brain injury mortality and cost based on MarketScan database. 
  • Triple chimeric flap based on anterior tibial vessels for reconstruction of severe traumatic injuries of the hand with thumb loss. 
  • Tympanic membrane perforation after combat blast exposure in Iraq: a poor biomarker of primary blast injury. 
  • Undertriage of Trauma-Related Deaths in U.S. Emergency Departments. 
  • Utilizing Precision Medicine to Estimate Timing for Surgical Closure of Traumatic Extremity Wounds. 
  • What is the clinical significance of chest CT when the chest x-ray result is normal in patients with blunt trauma? 
  • Withdrawal of Life-supporting Treatment in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Olson, Steven Arthur, Goldner Jones Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedic Surgery
  • Preminger, Glenn Michael, James F. Glenn, M.D. Distinguished Professor of Urology, Surgery, Urology
  • Routh, Jonathan Charles, Paul H. Sherman, M.D. Distinguished Associate Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics
  • Sampson, John Howard, Robert H., M.D. and Gloria Wilkins Professor of Neurosurgery, in the School of Medicine, Biomedical Engineering