Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School; Chief of Hand Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital
Orthopaedic Surgery
Dr. David C. Ring, MD
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David Ring works in the field of Orthopaedic Surgery. He attended University of California San Diego School of Medicine. University of California San Diego School of Medicine is ranked 17/19 in Research/PrimaryCare. He received 1 awards: "Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification". Doctor David C. Ring, MD is also a published MD. He has 100 publication published. The most recent publication is: Does perceived injustice correlate with pain intensity and disability in orthopaedic trauma patients? David C. Ring, MD accepts Medicare payments and is registered with Medicare.gov.
Publications
- Prevalence of and Factors Associated With Major Depression in Patients With Upper Extremity Conditions.
- Erratum to: Do Orthopaedic Surgeons Acknowledge Uncertainty?
- Emergency Department Visits After Hand Surgery Are Common and Usually Related to Pain or Wound Issues.
- Sleep Disturbance and Upper-Extremity Disability.
- What factors are associated with a second opioid prescription after treatment of distal radius Fractures with a volar locking plate?
- Early Patient Satisfaction with Different Treatment Pathways for Trigger Finger and Thumb.
- Time from Booking Until Appointment and Healthcare Utilization in Hand Surgery Patients with Discretionary Conditions.
- Incidental signal changes in the extensor carpi ulnaris on MRI.
- Relationship of age on enjoyment of physical activity in upper extremity illness.
- Surgeon personality is associated with recommendation for operative treatment.
- Attitudes and self-reported practices of Hand surgeons regarding prescription opioid use.
- Acute Median Neuropathy and Carpal Tunnel Release in Perilunate Injuries Can We Predict Who Gets a Median Neuropathy?
- What Is the Most Useful Questionnaire for Measurement of Coping Strategies in Response to Nociception?
- Quality Measurement: A Primer for Hand Surgeons.
- Predicting In-Hospital Mortality in Elderly Patients with Cervical Spine Fractures: A Comparison of the Charlson and Elixhauser Comorbidity Measures.
- Inpatient mortality after orthopaedic surgery.
- Inpatient surgical site infection after Shoulder arthroplasty.
- Preoperative Opioid Misuse is Associated With Increased Morbidity and Mortality After Elective Orthopaedic Surgery.
- Recovery from distal radius Fracture.
- Giant cell tumor of Tendon sheath.
- Surgical procedures of the Elbow: a nationwide cross-sectional observational study in the United States.
- The PROMIS physical function correlates with the QuickDASH in patients with upper extremity illness.
- Differences in response rates between mail, e-mail, and telephone follow-up in Hand surgery research.
- An open-label comparison of local anesthesia with or without sedation for minor Hand surgery.
- The Correlation of Cognitive Flexibility with Pain Intensity and Magnitude of Disability in Upper Extremity Illness.
- Prevalence of triangular fibrocartilage complex abnormalities regardless of symptoms rise with age: systematic review and pooled analysis.
- Time Seeing a Hand Surgeon Is Not Associated With Patient Satisfaction.
- The National Hospital Discharge Survey and Nationwide Inpatient Sample: the databases used affect results in THA research.
- Do 360-degree FeedBack Survey Results Relate to Patient Satisfaction Measures?
- Patients With Greater Symptom Intensity and More Disability are More Likely to be Surprised by a Hand Surgeon's Advice.
- Distribution of coronoid Fracture lines by specific patterns of traumatic elbow instability.
- Do Previsit Expectations Correlate With Satisfaction of New Patients Presenting for Evaluation With an Orthopaedic Surgical Practice?
- Small Finger MetaCarpal Shaft Wedged between Ring and Small MetaCarpal Bases: a Report of 2 Cases.
- Who Leaves the Hospital Against Medical Advice in the Orthopaedic Setting?
- Failure to Rescue after Proximal Femur Fracture Surgery.
- Incidence of Surgical Site Infection After Spine Surgery: What Is the Impact of the Definition of Infection?
- Predictors of missed research appointments in a randomized placebo-controlled trial.
- Progression of Carpal tunnel syndrome according to electrodiagnostic testing in nonoperatively treated patients.
- In-Hospital Outcomes after Hemiarthroplasty versus Total Hip Arthroplasty for Isolated Femoral Neck Fractures.
- Excisional biopsy of suspected benign soft tissue tumors of the upper extremity: correlation between preoperative diagnosis and actual pathology.
- Medical Services and Associated Costs Vary Widely Among Surgeons Treating Patients With Hand Osteoarthritis.
- Interobserver Variability in the Treatment of Little Finger Metacarpal Neck Fractures.
- Minorities Are Less Likely to Receive Autologous Blood Transfusion for Major Elective Orthopaedic Surgery.
- A prospective randomized controlled trial comparing night splinting with no splinting after treatment of mallet finger.
- Diagnostic accuracy of two-dimensional and three-dimensional imaging and modeling of radial head Fractures.
- The influence of mindfulness on upper extremity illness.
- Arm ache.
- De quervain tendinopathy: "success" and other subtleties.
- Disability versus impairment.
- Diagnosis of Carpal tunnel syndrome: interobserver reliability of the blinded scratch-collapse test.
- Surgeons' Attitudes Are Associated With Reoperation and Readmission Rates.
- The Elixhauser Comorbidity Method Outperforms the Charlson Index in Predicting Inpatient Death After Orthopaedic Surgery.
- When do patients with Hand illness seek online health consultations and what do they ask?
- Opioid Use After Fracture Surgery Correlates With Pain Intensity and Satisfaction With Pain Relief.
- The correlation of phrases and feelings with disability.
- Factors Influencing Discharge Disposition After Ankle Arthrodesis.
- Risk factors for continued opioid use one to two months after surgery for musculoskeletal trauma.
- Predictors of Readmission in Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery.
- Complications of Hinged External Fixation Compared With Cross-pinning of the Elbow for Acute and Subacute Instability.
- The Impact of Metabolic Syndrome on Inpatient Outcomes After Isolated Ankle Fractures.
- Letter of reply to comments on our paper "A prospective randomized comparison of neoprene vs thermoplast hand-based thumb spica splinting for trapeziometaCarpal arthro...
- Informed Shared Decision-Making and Patient Satisfaction.
- Determinants of Disability After Proximal Interphalangeal Joint Sprain or Dislocation.
- A tricky diagnosis.
- ContraLateral electrodiagnosis in patients with abnormal median distal sensory latency.
- Surgeon confidence in an outpatient setting.
- Disability and Pain after cortisone versus placebo injection for trapeziometacarpal arthrosis and de Quervain syndrome.
- Higher Charlson Comorbidity Index Scores are Associated With Readmission After Orthopaedic Surgery.
- Treatment choice affects inpatient adverse events and mortality in older aged inpatients with an isolated Fracture of the proximal humerus.
- Computerized adaptive testing of psychological factors: relation to upper-extremity disability.
- Psychiatric Disorders and Major Spine Surgery: Epidemiology and Perioperative Outcomes.
- The Creation of an Abbreviated Version of the PSEQ: The PSEQ-2.
- Benign upper extremity tumors: factors associated with operative treatment.
- Replantation and revascularization vs. amputation in injured digits.
- Injury Complexity Factors Predict Heterotopic Ossification Restricting Motion After Elbow Trauma.
- Death, Taxes, and TrapeziometaCarpal Arthrosis.
- Changes in treatment plan for Carpal tunnel syndrome based on electrodiagnostic test results.
- Abbreviated Psychologic Questionnaires Are Valid in Patients With Hand Conditions.
- Radiographic Diagnosis of Scapholunate Dissociation Among Intra-articular Fractures of the Distal Radius: Interobserver Reliability.
- Evaluation of the scratch collapse test for the diagnosis of Carpal tunnel syndrome.
- Does Rewording MRI Reports Improve Patient Understanding and Emotional Response to a Clinical Report?
- Factors Associated With Survey Response in Hand Surgery Research.
- How surgeons make decisions when the evidence is inconclusive.
- Resolution and recurrence rates of idiopathic trigger finger after corticosteroid injection.
- The comparison of paper- and web-based questionnaires in patients with Hand and upper extremity illness.
- TrapeziometaCarpal arthrosis: predictors of a second visit and surgery.
- Do Psychiatric Comorbidities Influence Inpatient Death, Adverse Events, and Discharge After Lower Extremity Fractures?
- CORR Insights(®): The Peripheral Neuronal Phenotype is Important in the Pathogenesis of Painful Human Tendinopathy: A Systematic Review.
- Validation of Phone Administration of Short-Form Disability and Psychology Questionnaires.
- Variation in recommendation for surgical treatment for compressive neuropathy.
- Charlson comorbidity indices and in-hospital deaths in patients with hip Fractures.
- Scapula Fractures: interobserver reliability of classification and treatment.
- Benchmarking changes in symptom intensity and magnitude of disability.
- Diagnostic accuracy of 2- and 3-dimensional computed tomography and solid modeling of coronoid Fractures.
- Factors associated with incomplete DASH questionnaires.
- Latent Class Analysis.
- What are the Factors Influencing Outcome Among Patients Admitted to a Hospital With a Proximal Humeral Fracture?
- Does perceived injustice correlate with Pain intensity and disability in orthopaedic trauma patients?
- Does "6-Clicks" Day 1 Postoperative Mobility Score Predict Discharge Disposition After Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasties?
Schools
University Of California San Diego School Of Medicine
Harvard UMa Gen Hospital
Ma Gen Hospital
Procedures Preformed
- Background: yellow;'>Carpal Tunnel Release
- Dressing and-or Debridement of Wound, Infection, or Burn (incl. Negative Pressure Wound Therapy)
- Background: yellow;'>Elbow Background: yellow;'>Background: yellow;'>Background: yellow;'>Fracture and-or Dislocation Treatment, Closed
- Background: yellow;'>Elbow Background: yellow;'>Background: yellow;'>Background: yellow;'>Fracture and-or Dislocation Treatment, Open
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Conditions Treated
- Ankle Sprain and Achilles Background: yellow;'>Tendon Sprain or Rupture
- Arm Background: yellow;'>Background: yellow;'>Background: yellow;'>Fracture (incl. Background: yellow;'>Elbow and Background: yellow;'>Shoulder)
- Back Background: yellow;'>Background: yellow;'>Pain
- Brachial Plexus Palsy
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Doctors Specialties
- Orthopedic Hand Surgery
- Orthopaedic Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
Education
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Massachusetts General Hospital -
University of California San Diego School of Medicine
Hospital
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Massachusetts General Hospital
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1568452746 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | RING | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | DAVID | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 021142621 | |
| NPPES Provider State | MA | |
| Specialty Description | Hand Surgery | |
| Total Claim Count | 28.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1568452746 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | RING |
| First Name Of The Provider | DAVID |
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