Warwick Hip Trauma Study: A randomised clinical trial comparing interventions to improve outcomes in internally fixed intracapsular fractures of the proximal femur. Protocol for the WHiT Study

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Griffin, Xavier Luke ^a   Parsons, Nick ^a   Achten, Juul ^a   Costa, Matthew L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE SCREW; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLATE FIXATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THROMBOCYTE RICH PLASMA; TREATMENT PLANNING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMUR NECK FRACTURE; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HIP FRACTURE; METHODOLOGY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOGRAPHY; STANDARD;

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; FEMORAL NECK FRACTURES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURE HEALING; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 77955527988     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2474-11-184     Document Type: Article

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