Improving Outcomes of Fracture Care
Dr. David C. Ring, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Pietro Regazzoni, Universitätsspital Basel
How well does a patient do after an injury and who gets to decide -- the doctor, the patient, an insurance adjustor, an attorney or a mixture of these individuals? These are largely unresolved issues. Professor Regazzoni from Switzerland identifies thought provoking emerging concepts on performance assessments currently being explored in Europe. Dr. Ring from Harvard School of Medicine, identifies complexities of how to measure patient well-being and the many factors which play into determination of final end results of treatment. These thought provoking lectures invite the audience to expand their thought processes towards development of a more individualized conceptual approach of the study, practice and reporting of results of surgery.