Reliability and validity of a mobile phone for radiographic assessment of ankle injuries: A randomized inter- and intraobserver agreement study

Foot and Ankle International

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 228-233

  Tennant, Joshua N ^a   Shankar, Viswanathan ^b   Dirschl, Douglas R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA HOSPITALS   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agreement; Ankle; Fracture; Mobile device

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE INJURY; ANKLE RADIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL IMAGING AND COMMUNICATIONS IN MEDICINE; DISTAL TIBIA FRACTURE; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALLEOLUS FRACTURE; MOBILE PHONE; MONITOR; ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; TIBIA FRACTURE; TREATMENT PLANNING; VALIDATION STUDY; ADOLESCENT; COMPUTER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DECISION MAKING; FRACTURE; INJURY SCALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC MANIPULATION; RADIOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANKLE INJURIES; CELLULAR PHONE; COMPUTER PERIPHERALS; DECISION MAKING; FRACTURES, CLOSED; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MANIPULATION, ORTHOPEDIC; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIBIAL FRACTURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84875898898     PISSN: 10711007     EISSN: 19447876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1071100712466849     Document Type: Article

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