Journal article
Close contact casting vs surgery for initial treatment of unstable ankle fractures in older adults: a randomized clinical trial
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Ankle fractures cause substantial morbidity in older persons. Surgical fixation is the contemporary intervention but is associated with infection and other healing complications.To determine whether initial fracture treatment with close contact casting, a molded below-knee cast with minimal padding, offers outcome equivalent to that with immediate surgery, with fewer complications and less health resource use.This was a pragmatic, equivalence, randomized clinical trial with blinded outcome as...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
- Version:
- Publisher's version
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1001/jama.2016.14719
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Funding
+ National Institute of
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Grant:
Health Technology
Assessment program (project 07/37/61); NIHR Oxford
Biomedical Research Unit funding scheme (Keene
and Lamb
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- American Medical Association Publisher's website
- Journal:
- JAMA Journal website
- Volume:
- 316
- Issue:
- 14
- Pages:
- 1455-1463
- Publication date:
- 2016-10-05
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-09-12
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1538-3598
- ISSN:
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0098-7484
- Pubs id:
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pubs:652131
- URN:
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uri:146535d0-f38c-440f-8576-6a72d343798d
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uuid:146535d0-f38c-440f-8576-6a72d343798d
- Local pid:
- pubs:652131
- Paper number:
- 14
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- Language:
- English
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- Copyright holder:
- American Medical Association
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Notes:
- Copyright © 2016 American Medical Association.
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