Measuring orthopaedic outcome: Shoulder outcome measures

摘要

However, before we further consider shoulder outcome measures, we note that the authors of "Outcome Instruments for the Shoulder"6 include orthopaedic industry employees. A general rule for our journal is that orthopaedic industry employees are permitted to coauthor original scientific articles, but may not author review articles. Rules are made to be broken, and as this review mentions no commercial products or techniques, and considers a topic of significant interest, this submission has been accepted for publication. Relations with industry introduce potential conflicts,a but can also be necessary and beneficial; this article represents an example of the latter.