title: The orthopaedic research scene and strategies to improve it.
abstract: Trauma and orthopaedics is the largest of the surgical specialties and yet attracts a disproportionately small fraction of available national and international funding for health research. With the burden of musculoskeletal disease increasing, high-quality research is required to improve the evidence base for orthopaedic practice. Using the current research landscape in the United Kingdom as an example, but also addressing the international perspective, we highlight the issues surrounding poor levels of research funding in trauma and orthopaedics and indicate avenues for improving the impact and success of surgical musculoskeletal research.
authors.affiliation: Newcastle University, Musculoskeletal Research Group, Level 4 Cookson Building, The Medical School, Newcastle, NE2 4HH, UK.
authors.forename: K S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Rankin
authors.affiliation: University of Warwick , Clinical Sciences Building, Clifford Bridge Road, Coventry CV2 2DX, UK.
authors.forename: A P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Sprowson
authors.affiliation: Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals Foundation NHS Trust, NR4 7UY, UK.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: McNamara
authors.affiliation: Jichi Medical University, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Saitama Medical Centre, Saitama, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Akiyama
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Buchbinder
authors.affiliation: University of Warwick, Clinical Trials Unit, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK.
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Costa
authors.affiliation: Aalborg University Hospital, Research and Innovation Centre, 15 Soendre Skovvej, DK-9000, Aalborg, Denmark.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rasmussen
authors.affiliation: National University of Singapore, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, 1E Kent Ridge Road, 119228, Singapore.
authors.forename: S S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Nathan
authors.affiliation: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales University Hospital, Shatin, Hong Kong.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kumta
authors.affiliation: Durham University, School of Medicine & Health, Queen's Campus, University Boulevard, Teesside TS17 6BH, UK.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rangan
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D002170:Canada; D002608:Charities / Q000191:economics; D005060:Europe; D005380:Financing, Government; D006723:Hong Kong; D007221:Industry; D007564:Japan; D009985:Orthopedics; D012106:Research / Q000639:trends*; D012107:Research Design; D012109:Research Support as Topic / Q000639:trends*; D012846:Singapore; D006113:United Kingdom; D014481:United States
keywords: Funding; Orthopaedic; Research