Abstract
Please accept my warmest wishes for a happy, safe, and productive 2023. The challenges we all have faced over the past several years are bound to continue, yet I am hopeful we will begin to see real progress toward a less-chaotic world that allows a path for all of us to fulfill our personal and professional goals. This issue of HSS Journal signals the start of our 19th year of publication. Last year was one of significant achievements for the journal, including becoming a quarterly and receiving formal recognition with our first impact factor. This issue provides a strong start for our continued progress.
Turcotte et al, in a commentary on collecting patient-reported outcomes measures (PROMs) data in a private practice setting, illustrate the potential for practices in nonacademic settings to contribute to the academic mission of orthopedic surgery (https://doi.org/10.1177/15563316221109827). In our CME offering this issue, Kiani et al address delirium following total shoulder arthroplasty, finding an association of benzodiazepine use and postoperative delirium, especially in older patients (https://doi.org/10.1177/15563316221134244). Ast et al provide evidence that recent improvements in total knee replacement designs actually contribute to more successful outcomes (https://doi.org/10.1177/15563316221131251). In addition, Miller et al review their experience with the use of a new microcurrent-generating dressing that may reduce the incidence of wound infection following shoulder surgery (https://doi.org/10.1177/15563316221100989).
In 2022, a subcommittee of our editorial board was convened to address our commitment to the peer-review process. Since the 17th century, peer review has been the mainstay for ensuring the quality of manuscripts that make up the body of scientific knowledge. Peer review is time tested, and we rely almost exclusively on it in the selection of manuscripts for publication. Still it presents many controversies and challenges. Peer review is time consuming and may be seen as a burden to invited reviewers. There is little in the way of providing formal training or assessing the quality of reviews.
HSS Journal will continue to employ a double-anonymous review process, and we to hope to enhance the experience for both reviewers and authors in the coming year. Our peer-review subcommittee is considering ways to incentivize reviewers for their efforts. We are considering different methods of peer review for the various manuscripts we receive. We plan a program for training reviewers based on the available evidence, as well as methods of providing helpful feedback for reviews submitted. We realize this is a challenging commitment but one needed for our progress.
Again, accept my best wishes for the new year. I hope you will continue to contribute to and benefit from our efforts to provide a valuable and unique resource for the various disciplines of musculoskeletal medicine and surgery.
Supplemental Material
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Footnotes
Declaration of Conflicting Interests
The author declared the following potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: C.N.C. received consulting fees from Exactech, outside the submitted work.
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