Can orthopedic trials change practice?: A survey of 796 orthopedic surgeons on the possible findings of a hip fracture trial

Acta Orthopaedica

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 122-125

  Dijkman, Bernadette G ^a   Kooistra, Bauke W ^a   Pemberton, Julia ^a   Sprague, Sheila ^a   Hanson, Beate P ^b   Bhandari, Mohit ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b AO Clinical Investigation   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPLASTY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMUR NECK FRACTURE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; QUALITY OF LIFE; REOPERATION; SURGEON; SURGICAL APPROACH; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STANDARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMORAL NECK FRACTURES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REOPERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77950464779     PISSN: 17453674     EISSN: 17453682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17453671003587093     Document Type: Article

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