Open reduction and internal fixation versus casting for highly comminuted and intra-articular fractures of the distal radius (ORCHID): Protocol for a randomized clinical multi-center trial

Trials

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Bartl, Christoph ^a   Stengel, Dirk ^b   Bruckner, Thomas ^c   Rossion, Inga ^d   Luntz, Steffen ^d   Seiler, Christoph ^d   Gebhard, Florian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b Center for Clinical Research   (Germany)

^c Abteilung Medizinische Biometrie and SDGC   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMINUTED FRACTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISABILITY; EQUATORIAL GUINEA; GERMANY; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNET; INTRAARTICULAR FRACTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; MONITORING; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIUS FRACTURE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RANGE OF MOTION; SHORT FORM 36; VOLAR PLATE FIXATION; WEB BROWSER; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONVALESCENCE; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; IMMOBILIZATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLASTER CAST; RADIOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CASTS, SURGICAL; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, COMMINUTED; GERMANY; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIUS FRACTURES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RESEARCH DESIGN; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79953070184     PISSN: 17456215     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-12-84     Document Type: Article

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