SPECIAL ISSUE: DESIGNING IMPLANT TRIALS GUEST EDITOR: MOHIT BHANDARI Preface: Designing Implant Trials in 2010: A Recipe for Success

In a recent evaluation of 1017 device trials listed on a clinical trials register (www.clinicaltrials.gov) between 2005 and 2009, only 84 (8.2%) represented orthopedic device evaluations. These device trials notably had few numbers of patients and few centers and represented approximately 7% of drug trials on the same registry. The relatively small proportion of device trials in orthopedics may represent a lack of interest; however, given the …