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The Western Slope Study Group (WSSG) was founded in 1997 as a multidisciplinary not-for-profit corporation dedicated to musculoskeletal education and research. WSSG's activities have historically emphasized orthopaedics due to the fact that the founder and director, Michael Dohm, M.D. is an orthopaedic surgeon. The group’s educational offerings...

Clinical Trials in Spine Medicine lists industry-sponsored trials that are actively recruiting patients.

The metaRegister of Controlled Trials is a searchable, international database of ongoing randomised controlled trials in all areas of healthcare. At present, the mRCT also contains some completed trials. Offering access to more than 10,000 records, the mRCT is free Highly Reputable

Stretching before or after exercising does not confer protection from muscle soreness Highly Reputable

Archive Copy: 2004 Hi Quality website, launched in March 2002 and designed to raise standards in health information. Hi Quality should be used if you are: looking for health information and require guidance on how to check its quality; producing health information and require guidance on how to assure quality standards. Highly Reputable

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The Clinical Trials section of this site is divided into lists of ongoing clinical trials in active recruitment at Johns Hopkins University, Division of Rheumatology, Bayview Center.

Fantastic set of over 3500 algorithms for medicine. Includes sections on musculoskeletal and trauma. Contains downloadable documents pertaining to many outcome scoring systems. Highly Reputable

The National Confidential Enquiry into Perioperative Deaths (NCEPOD) is a registered charity whose aim is to review clinical practice and identify potentially remediable factors in the practice of anaesthesia, surgery and other invasive medical procedures. The aim is to look at the quality of the delivery of care and not... Highly Reputable

National Guideline Clearinghouse™ (NGC), a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. NGC is sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (formerly the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research) in partnership with the American Medical Association and the American Association of Health Plans. Highly Reputable

Preventing fractures in elderly people is a priority, especially as it has been predicted that in 20 years almost a quarter of people in Europe will be aged over 65. This article describes the factors contributing to fracture, interventions to prevent fracture, and the various treatments. BMJ 2003;327:89-95 (12 July) Highly Reputable

Archive Copy 2004: Systematic review of childhood injury prevention Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center

The TRIP Database searches over 75 sites of high-quality medical information. The TRIP Database gives you direct, hyperlinked access to the largest collection of 'evidence-based' material on the web as well as articles from premier on-line journals such as the BMJ, JAMA, NEJM. Highly Reputable

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