title: Cost-effective trauma implant selection: AAOS exhibit selection.
abstract: Today's increasingly complex health-care landscape requires that physicians take an active role in minimizing health-care costs and expenditures. Judicious choice of implants, a fracture-driven treatment algorithm, capitation models, use of generic fracture implants, and reuse of external fixation constructs all represent mechanisms that can result in substantial savings. In some health-care environments, these cost savings programs may be directly linked to physician reimbursement in the form of gainsharing plans. Evidence-based critical evaluations of implant usage patterns are necessary to help control implant-related health-care spending but are lacking in the current literature. Physicians need to acknowledge their influence and responsibility in this realm and assume an active role to help reduce costs.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases, 301 East 17th Street, New York, NY 10003. E-mail address for K.A. Egol: Kenneth.Egol@nyumc.org.
authors.forename: Kenneth A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Egol
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases, 301 East 17th Street, New York, NY 10003. E-mail address for K.A. Egol: Kenneth.Egol@nyumc.org.
authors.forename: Christina E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Capriccioso
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases, 301 East 17th Street, New York, NY 10003. E-mail address for K.A. Egol: Kenneth.Egol@nyumc.org.
authors.forename: Sanjit R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Konda
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases, 301 East 17th Street, New York, NY 10003. E-mail address for K.A. Egol: Kenneth.Egol@nyumc.org.
authors.forename: Nirmal C
authors.initials: NC
authors.lastname: Tejwani
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases, 301 East 17th Street, New York, NY 10003. E-mail address for K.A. Egol: Kenneth.Egol@nyumc.org.
authors.forename: Frank A
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Liporace
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases, 301 East 17th Street, New York, NY 10003. E-mail address for K.A. Egol: Kenneth.Egol@nyumc.org.
authors.forename: Joseph D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Zuckerman
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases, 301 East 17th Street, New York, NY 10003. E-mail address for K.A. Egol: Kenneth.Egol@nyumc.org.
authors.forename: Roy I
authors.initials: RI
authors.lastname: Davidovitch
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D017046:Cost Savings; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000191:economics* / Q000601:surgery; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006801:Humans; D009984:Orthopedic Fixation Devices / Q000191:economics*; D010819:Physician's Role; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States