Research & Innovation
BJI mobilizes key members to champion flagship projects that will accelerate research and increase potential for impact. Activities include:
- identifying priority research questions/projects, enhancing the sharing of data and/or samples, promoting the use of standardized research tools/protocols as part of usual clinical care (increase available data, decrease research costs, and reduce participant burden) and facilitating major grant submissions to enable high-impact research (e.g. more clinical trials to evaluate current and new therapies) and publications.
- conducting rigorously designed research studies that incorporate the best tools and measures to investigate clinical and cost effectiveness of: 1) less invasive and joint-preserving procedures; 2) strategies to decrease surgical infection; 3) tools that support self-management and rehabilitation.
- establishing a stakeholder consultation mechanism with the support of our Board to obtain feedback (e.g. research ideas, designs, relevance, and feasibility) and increase research contracts with industry.
