Multi-investigator collaboration in orthopaedic surgery research compared to other medical fields

Robert H. Brophy; Matthew V. Smith; Christian Latterman; Morgan H. Jones; Emily K. Reinke; David C. Flanigan; Rick W. Wright; Brian R. Wolf

doi:10.1002/jor.22125

Back

Multi-investigator collaboration in orthopaedic surgery research compared to other medical fields

Journal article

Open access

Peer reviewed

Multi-investigator collaboration in orthopaedic surgery research compared to other medical fields

Robert H. Brophy, Matthew V. Smith, Christian Latterman, Morgan H. Jones, Emily K. Reinke, David C. Flanigan, Rick W. Wright and Brian R. Wolf

Journal of orthopaedic research, Vol.30(10), pp.1523-1528

10/01/2012

DOI: 10.1002/jor.22125

PMID: 22508437

Files and links (1)

url

https://doi.org/10.1002/jor.22125View

Published (Version of record) Open Access

Abstract

An increasing emphasis has been placed across health care on evidence-based medicine with higher level studies, such as randomized trials and prospective cohort studies. Historically, clinical research in orthopaedic surgery has been dominated by studies with low patient numbers from a limited number of surgeons. The purpose of this study was to test our hypothesis that orthopaedics has fewer multi-center collaborative studies as compared to other medical disciplines. We chose three leading journals from general medicine, a leading journal from the surgical subspecialties of obstetrics and gynecology, ophthalmology and otolaryngology, and three leading journals from orthopaedic surgery based on highest impact factor. We compared the percentage of collaborative studies and the number of contributing institutions and authors in original research manuscripts published in 2009 between general medical, surgical subspecialty and orthopaedic surgery journals. A significantly higher percentage of manuscripts resulted from multicenter collaborative efforts in the general medical literature (p?<?0.000001) and the other surgical subspecialty literature (p?<?0.000001) compared to the orthopaedic surgery literature. Manuscripts published in the general medical journals came from more institutions (p?<?0.0001) and had significantly more authors (p?<?0.000001) than those published in the orthopaedic surgery journals. There is an opportunity to stimulate greater multicenter collaborative research, which correlates with increased patient numbers, a higher level of evidence and more generalizable findings, in the orthopaedic surgery community. These efforts can be supported through increased funding, surgeon participation, and appropriate expansion of authorship for multicenter studies in orthopaedic journals. (c) 2012 Orthopaedic Research Society. Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Orthop Res 30:15231528, 2012

Orthopedics

Life Sciences & Biomedicine

Science & Technology

Details

Title: Subtitle: Multi-investigator collaboration in orthopaedic surgery research compared to other medical fields
Creators: Robert H. Brophy - Washington University in St. Louis
Matthew V. Smith - Washington University in St. Louis
Christian Latterman - University of Kentucky
Morgan H. Jones - Cleveland Clinic
Emily K. Reinke - Vanderbilt Orthopaedic Institute, Nashville, Tennesee
David C. Flanigan - OSU Sports Medicine, Columbus, Ohio
Rick W. Wright - Washington University in St. Louis
Brian R. Wolf - University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Journal of orthopaedic research, Vol.30(10), pp.1523-1528
DOI: 10.1002/jor.22125
PMID: 22508437
NLM abbreviation: J Orthop Res
ISSN: 0736-0266
eISSN: 1554-527X
Publisher: Wiley
Number of pages: 6
Language: English
Date published: 10/01/2012
Academic Unit: Orthopedics and Rehabilitation; Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science
Record Identifier: 9984295046902771

Metrics

13 Record Views

13 Times Cited - Web of Science