Authors: Andrew J Schoenfeld Philip J Belmont
Publish Date: 2014/06/28
Volume: 134, Issue: 8, Pages: 1191-1192
Abstract
We wish to thank Drs Liu and Zhang for their thoughtful feedback regarding our recent publication Risk factors for complications and inhospital mortality following hip fractures a study using the National Trauma Data Bank 1 We appreciate the points raised by these scholars and the queries they posed While endeavoring to respond to their critiques we feel that it is important to emphasize that many of the criticisms leveled at our recent work are broadly applicable to most studies that present evidence regarding the surgical treatment of hip fractures When considering investigations designed to inform care scholars frequently wrestle with a two edged sword that pits sufficient clinical granularity against a sample size that can support meaningful conclusions To this one might also add a study population sample that can be considered generalizable to the broader demographic Frequently when using registry data or weighted samples that possess translational capacity someSome authors are employees of the US Federal Government and the United States Army The opinions or assertions contained herein are the private views of the authors and are not to be construed as official or reflecting the views of William Beaumont Army Medical Center the Department of Defense or United States government Dr Andrew Schoenfeld is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Department of Veterans Affairs were not directly involved in study design data acquisition and interpretation or manuscript preparation or review Any opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation or the Department of Veterans Affairs
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