Quality Programs Development Timeline

Development Timeline for Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs)

Department of Defense: Psychosocial Risk Factors

Status: Approved by the AAOS Board of Directors 12/06/2020

Participating Societies:

American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons • Major Extremity Trauma & Rehabilitation Consortium • U.S. Department of Defense • The Society of Military Orthopaedic Medicine • American Academy of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation • American Physical Therapy Association  • Orthopaedic Trauma Association 

Funded by the U.S. Department of Defense


Department of Defense: Limb Salvage and Early Amputation

Status:  Approved by AAOS Board of Directors 12/06/2020

Participating Societies:

American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons • Major Extremity Trauma & Rehabilitation Consortium • U.S. Department of Defense • American Academy of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation • American Physical Therapy Association  • Orthopaedic Trauma Association • Musculoskeletal Tumor Society • American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society • Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction Society

Funded by the U.S. Department of Defense


Distal Radius Fractures

Status: Literature Review 

Participating Societies:

American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons •  American Society for Hand Surgery • American Society for Surgery of the Hand • American College of Surgeons • American Society of Hand Therapists • American Society of Plastic Surgeons • Hand Surgery Quality Consortium • Orthopaedic Trauma Association 


Glenohumeral Joint Osteoarthritis

Status: Formulating Rationales

Participating Societies:

American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons •  American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine •  Arthroscopy Association of North America •   American College of Radiation •  American Society of Shoulder and Elbow Therapists •  American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons• American Academy of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation • American Physical Therapy Association


Osteoarthritis of the Knee (Non-Arthroplasty)

Status: Literature Review

Participating Societies:

American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons • International Cartilage Regeneration & Joint Preservation Society • American Association of Hip & Knee Surgeons • Knee Society• American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine •  American Academy of Family Physicians •  Arthroscopy Association of North America • American Physical Therapy Association • American Medical Society for Sports Medicine


Hip Fractures in the Elderly

Status: Literature Review

Participating Societies:

American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons • American Geriatrics Society • American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation • American College of Emergency Physicians • American Physical Therapy Association • Orthopaedic Trauma Association • American College of Radiology • American Society for Bone and Mineral Research • The Hip Society • American Society of Anesthesiologists • American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons


Department of Defense: Perioperative Pain Management 

Status: Literature Review

Participating Societies: 

American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons • Major Extremity Trauma & Rehabilitation Consortium • The Society of Military Orthopaedic Medicine • Orthopaedic Trauma Association  • American Society of Anesthesiologists

Funded by the U.S. Department of Defense

For more information please contact Ryan Pezold pezold@aaos.org, Kyle Mullen mullen@aaos.org, or Danielle Schulte schulte@aaos.org