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IntroductionPosted on 3 February 2010. This year began with Chester Knee Clinic staff stranded at various airports around the world due to bad weather conditions. The unusually snowy and cold winter we have experienced in the UK caused havoc with our clinics and appointments – many patients had trouble making it to the hospital and had to struggle with icy conditions. However, things are back to normal now and we are looking forward to the rest of the year. We wish you a very happy New Year, from all of us at Chester Knee Clinic Archived News:Latest CKC NewsPosted on 3 February 2010 2010 Update on Knee InjuriesVenue: Nuffield Health, The Grosvenor Hospital, Chester. Date: 19 May 2010. Programme. We are pleased to announce our next Educational Seminar, following the success of our series of educational seminars on running, cycling and skiing injuries. This year we will focus on early diagnosis and treatment of common knee problems and injuries. The seminar is primarily aimed at GPs and Physiotherapists. There will be an opportunity to discuss the subject of the talk and ask questions at the end of the seminar. As a part of the Nuffield Health GP Learning Programme we will provide certificates for 3 hours CPD credits for the maintenance of a portfolio of learning for your appraisal and revalidation. If you would like to book a place please contact Ailsa Rainey by email (ailsa.rainey@nuffieldhealth.com) or on 01244 684 343. Please note that the number of places will be limited to 40. We look forward to seeing you there. Recent Orthopaedic News and ArticlesUpdated on 9 July 2010 Quality and Content of Internet-Based Information for Ten Common Orthopaedic Sports Medicine DiagnosesJBJS(A), 7 July 2010. Background Although the use of the Internet to access health information has grown quickly, the emergence of quality controls for health information web sites has been considerably slower. The primary objective of this study was to assess the quality and content of Internet-based information for commonly encountered diagnoses within orthopaedic sports medicine. Methods Ten common diagnoses within the scope of orthopaedic sports medicine were chosen. Custom grading templates were developed for each condition, and they included an assessment of web-site type, the accountability and transparency of the information (Health On the Net Foundation [HON] score), and the information content. Information content was divided into five subcategories: disease summary, pathogenesis, diagnostics, treatment and complications, and outcomes and prognosis. Two popular search engines were used, and the top ten sites from each were independently reviewed by three authors. Data were evaluated for interobserver variability, HON scores, information content scores, and subgroup score comparisons. Results After eliminating duplicate sites, a total of 154 unique sites were reviewed. The most common web-site types were commercial (seventy-four sites) and academic (thirty-two sites). Average HON scores, on a 16-point scale, were 9.8, 9.5, and 8.5, for reviewers 1, 2, and 3, respectively. Average information content scores, on a 100-point scale, were 56.8, 56.0, and 54.8 for reviewers 1, 2, and 3, respectively. Average content scores in each subgroup ranged between 45% and 61% of the maximum possible score. The presence of the HONcode seal was associated with significantly higher HON (p = 0.0001) and content scores (p = 0.002). Conclusions The quality and content of health information on the Internet is highly variable for common sports medicine topics. Patients should be encouraged to exercise caution and to utilize only well-known sites and those that display the HONcode seal of compliance with transparency and accountability practices.
CKC Conference NewsUpdated on 9 July 2010 We were unable to participate in the ACL Study Group meeting in Phuket, Thailand (20 - 26 February 2010) and the AAOS Annual Meeting in New Orleans (9 - 13 March 2010) as we had a lot of catching up to do in February and March. We are participating in the following meetings and international conferences:
Other CKC NewsPosted on 3 February 2010 WoodworkingEarly last year Vladimir joined Sanjiv Dhital, Consultant Plastic and Aesthetic Surgeon and an experienced woodworker, in his workshop and started learning the basics of woodworking. Vladimir is a prolific lamp-maker but his ambition is to make rocking chairs, inspired by Hans Wegner's classic J16 rocking chair and Sam Maloof's rockers. A few samples of the pieces of the furniture and lamps he made so far can be seen on www.woodsurgeons.com. Obviously, it is going to be a long way to anything even remotely similar to Sam Maloof's rockers! This page was launched on 01 February 2010. Last update: 9 July 2010. Site last updated on: 01 Feb 2010
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