2013 Highlight Paper Winners

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Time to Definitive Operative Treatment Following Open Fracture Does Not Impact Development of Deep Infection: A Prospective Cohort Study of 736 Subjects
Donald Weber, MD
; Sukhdeep K. Dulai, MD, MSc, FRCS(C); Joseph Bergman, MD; Richard E. Buckley, MD; Lauren A. Beaupre

 

The Effect of Surgical Treatment on Mortality After Acetabular Fracture in the Elderly: A Multicenter Study of 454 Patients
Joshua L. Gary, MD
; Ebrahim Paryavi, MD, MPH; Steven D. Gibbons; Michael J. Weaver, MD; Jordan H. Morgan, BS; Scott P. Ryan, Adam J. Starr, MD; Robert V. O’Toole, MD

 

Can an Evidence-Based Treatment Algorithm for Intertrochanteric Hip Fractures Maintain Quality at a Reduced Cost?
Kenneth A. Egol, MD
; Alejandro I. Marcano, MD; Lambert Lewis, BS; Nirmal C. Tejwani, MD; Toni M. McLaurin, MD; Roy I. Davidovitch, MD

 

Intramedullary Versus Extramedullary Fixation of Unstable Intertrochanteric Hip Fractures: A Prospective Randomized Control Study
Rudolf Reindl, MD, FRCSC
; Edward J. Harvey, MD, FRCSC; Gregory K. Berry, MD, FRCSC;

 

Is Immediate Weight Bearing Safe for Periprosthetic Distal Femur Fractures Treated With Locked Plating?
Wade R. Smith, MD
; Jason W. Stoneback, MD; Steven J. Morgan, MD

 

Locked Plating Versus Retrograde Nailing for Distal Femur Fractures: A Multicenter Randomized Trial
Paul Tornetta, III, MD
; Kenneth A. Egol, MD; Clifford B. Jones, MD; Janos P. Ertl, MD; Brian Mullis, MD; Edward Perez, MD; Cory A. Collinge, MD; Robert Ostrum, MD; Catherine Humphrey, MD; Sean Nork, MD; Michael J. Gardner, MD; William M. Ricci, MD; Laura S. Phieffer, MD; David Teague, MD; William Ertl, MD; Christopher T. Born, MD; Alan Zonno, MD; Judith Siegel, MD; H. Claude Sagi, MD; Andrew Pollak, MD; Andrew H. Schmidt, MD; David Templeman, MD; Andrew Sems, MD; Darin M. Freiss, MD; Hans-Christoph Pape, MD

 

Acute Compartment Syndrome: Where Pressure Fails, pH Succeeds
Kirsten G.B. Elliott, FRCS (Ortho), MD
; Alan J. Johnstone, FRCS

 

Open Reduction and Internal Fixation Compared With Primary Subtalar Fusion for Treatment of Sanders Type IV Calcaneal Fractures: A Randomized Multicenter Clinical Trial
Richard E. Buckley, MD

 

A Prospective Randomized Multicentric Trial Comparing a Static Implant to a Dynamic Implant in the Surgical Treatment of Acute Ankle Syndesmosis Rupture
Mélissa Laflamme, MD; Etienne L. Belzile, MD; Luc Bédard, MD; Michel van den Bekerom, MD; Mark Glazebrook, MD; Stéphane Pelet, MD, PhD

 

Stress Hyperglycemia Is Associated With Surgical Site Infection: A Prospective Observational Study of Nondiabetic, Noncritically Ill Orthopaedic Trauma Patients
Justin E. Richards, MD;
Julie Hutchinson, ACNP; Kaushik Mukherjee, MD, MSCI; A. Alex Jahangir, MD; Hassan R. Mir, MD; Jason M. Evans, MD; Aaron M. Perdue, MD; William T. Obremskey, MD, MPH; Manish K. Sethi, MD; Addison K. May, MD