[Evidence-based medicine in orthopedics and trauma surgery]

Medical knowledge is rapidly expanding but which research results in orthopedics and trauma surgery are actually suitable to change treatment decisions in the daily routine? Evidence-based medicine is a process to search for reliable answers to this and in the assessment of scientific data relies on an individual systematic evaluation with quality criteria and defined statistics. The core procedure is to filter out the true patient benefits from study results by a structured analysis in order to derive an algorithm to solve the clinical problem. The clinical expertise, the knowledge and the strength of judgement of orthopedic and trauma surgeons play a central role in the assessment of the calculated evidence-based key figures.