Journal article
Close contact casting vs surgery for initial treatment of unstable ankle fractures in older adults: a randomized clinical trial
- Abstract:
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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
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Funding
+ National Institute of
Health Research
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Grant:
HealthTechnology
Assessmentprogram(project07/37/61);NIHROxford
BiomedicalResearchUnitfundingscheme(Keene
Lamb
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- American Medical Association Publisher's website
- Journal:
- JAMA Journal website
- Volume:
- 316
- Issue:
- 14
- Pages:
- 1455-1463
- Publication date:
- 2016-10-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-09-12
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1538-3598
- ISSN:
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0098-7484
- Pmid:
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27727383
- Source identifiers:
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652131
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Pubs id:
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pubs:652131
- UUID:
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uuid:146535d0-f38c-440f-8576-6a72d343798d
- Local pid:
- pubs:652131
- Deposit date:
- 2016-10-13
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- Copyright holder:
- American Medical Association
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Notes:
- Copyright © 2016 American Medical Association.
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