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Ankle Injury Management (AIM): design of a pragmatic multi-centre equivalence randomised controlled trial comparing Close Contact Casting (CCC) to Open surgical Reduction and Internal Fixation (ORIF) in the treatment of unstable ankle fractures in patients over 60 years.
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BACKGROUND: Ankle fractures account for 9% of all fractures with a quarter of these occurring in adults over 60 years. The short term disability and long-term consequences of this injury can be considerable. Current opinion favours open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) over non-operative treatment (fracture manipulation and the application of a standard moulded cast) for older people. Both techniques are associated with complications but the limited published research indicates higher c...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1186/1471-2474-15-79
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC musculoskeletal disorders Journal website
- Volume:
- 15
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 79
- Publication date:
- 2014-01-01
- DOI:
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1471-2474
- ISSN:
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1471-2474
- Source identifiers:
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457554
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:457554
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uuid:e40a8eac-e338-48ef-ab5a-60b5bc85c1fe
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- pubs:457554
- Deposit date:
- 2014-05-09
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- Copyright holder:
- Willett et al
- Copyright date:
- 2014
- Notes:
- © 2014 Willett et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited.
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