Increasing Use of Promotional Language in Orthopaedic Surgery Abstracts—An Analysis of 112,916 Abstracts 1985 to 2020

Increasing use of "hype" language (eg, language overstating research impact) has been documented in the scientific community. Evaluating language in abstracts is important because readers may use abstracts to extrapolate findings to entire publications. Our purpose was to assess the frequency of hype language within orthopaedic surgery.