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Forestplot ❤️ dplyr
The forestplot package now loves the tidyverse! The image is CC by Julie Jablonski. Since initial publishing my forestplot package, dplyr and tidyverse have become evermore dominant in how we think...
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A few tips for beginners on how to engage with the open source community
Engaging the open source community can be challenging at start. The image is CC by Ryan Roberts. I have been writing code in multiple languages since 1994 and for almost a decade now I have been active...
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Easiest flowcharts eveR?
A guide to flowcharts using my Gmisc package. The image is CC by Michael Staats. A flowchart is a type of diagram that represents a workflow or process. The building blocks are boxes and the arrows...
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News in htmlTable 2.0
A short intro to the new features in htmlTable 2.0. The image is a blend based on a CC image by Ken Xu. The htmlTable 2.0 package was just released on CRAN! It is my most downloaded package with 160...
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Surgery for sacroiliac joint dysfunction, is this a thing?
A nice surprise article from JBJS on low back pain. The image is CC by Wanderer99. Low back pain has a history of failed trials supporting surgery (see Brox et al. and Fairbank et al.) and I was...
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Long-awaited updates to htmlTable
Lets celebrate 2019 with some updates to my most popular package ever, the htmlTable. The image is CC by Thomas Hawk One of the most pleasant surprises has been the popularity of my htmlTable-package...
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Collum screw – to parallel or not
Bridging the knowledge gap in how to operate femoral neck fractures. The image is CC by Nick Mealey. One of the first surgeries young orthopaedic surgeons learn is the femoral neck fracture fixation...
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A screw finally worth writing about
Nice to see a good RCT that actually addresses an issue that I care about. The image is CC by Araí Moleri Riva-Zucchelli, I finally found something exciting to write about, the suture button/tightrope....
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And I thought we were done with the mid-shaft clavicle….
Bicycle injuries are by far the most common mechanism of injury for clavicle injuries. The image is CC by Hiroyuki Takeda. So… just a few days after my previous clavicle post, Ahrens et al released...
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The clavicle fracture – can the madness finally come to an end?
Finding the right path can be harder than we want to think . The image is CC by Gwenole Camus. In the early 2000s Nowak et al. [1] shattered the belief that mid-shaft clavicle fractures always healed...
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Our AI on par with humans?
The first step in orthopedic deep learning. The image is CC from Pixabay. We finally published our first article on deep learning (a form of artificial intelligence, AI) in orthopedics! We got standard...
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ASA as DVT prophylaxis gaining in popularity?
Keeping the blood flowing is part of core medical knowledge – then why the controversy? The image is CC by Andi Campbell-Jones In a recent post I noted that there was a dissonance between what I’ve...
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Unstable ankle fractures – a British multi-center study provides a neat...
Large multi-center RCTs are worth celebrating with fireworks. The image is CC by Colin Knowles. The Brits have done it again: an amazing, multi-center study on ankle surgery. They looked at 620...
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Chochrane supports restrictive transfusions
Will Cochrane break through to the blood thirsty colleagues? The image is CC by Gaviota Paseandera. I’ve previously written a two posts on blood transfusions from a surgeons perspective (End of the...
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Cartilage – the most stubborn entity of all?
Sad to see when new methods fail to improve outcomes. The image is CC by Karly Crystal I’ve previously written about some interesting studies on treatment of cartilage defects. I was therefore...
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Setting up a multilabel classification network with torch-dataframe
Working with multiple outcomes per input can be challenging. The image is cc by Markus Lütkemeyer. A common situation is that you have an image that can represent more than one class, e.g. a image may...
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Integration between torchnet and torch-dataframe – a closer look at the mnist...
It’s all about the numbers and getting the tensors right. The image is cc by David Asch. In previous posts we’ve looked into the basic structure of the torch-dataframe package. In this post we’ll go...
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The torch-dataframe – subsetting and sampling
Subsetting and batching is like dealing cards – should be random unless you are doing a trick. The image is cc from Steven Depolo. In my previous two posts I covered the most basic data manipulation...
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Dealing with non-proportional hazards in R
As things change over time so should our statistical models. The image is CC by Prad Prathivi Since I’m frequently working with large datasets and survival data I often find that the proportional...
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LMWH – a Big Pharma bluff?
Tales of Big Pharma Horror. The image is CC from Mike Licht. Thromboprophylaxis is a given for patients operated due to lower limb injuries, at least if we believe Big Pharma-studies. This dogma is now...
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