Codman Shoulder Society

Dear CSS Colleagues: Enclosed is a link to a video that speaks to both our commitment to measurement of outcomes and the competitive advantage this approach can bring to your practice. Remember, Codman believed in measuring every patient’s outcome to determine if the treatment was successful. He didn’t realize that this gives a real business advantage to surgeons, since patients want transparency as a way to frame their confidence as to the reliability of a given treatment

Dear CSS Colleagues: I previously sent you this message, and I include your comments and discussion on this article: If you fancy yourself an entrepreneur or innovator, you should read the article by Rick Matsen and colleagues: “Assessing the Value to the Patient of New Technologies in Anatomical Shoulder Arthroplasty.” The authors conclude, in their metanalysis of 20 years of shoulder innovation, that no value has been created for patients. I am also enclosing an opinion pie