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

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Willett, Keith ^a   Keene, David J ^a   Morgan, Lesley ^a   Gray, Bridget ^a   Handley, Robert ^b   Chesser, Tim ^c   Pallister, Ian ^d   Tutton, Elizabeth ^a   Knox, Christopher ^e   Lall, Ranjit ^e   Briggs, Andrew ^f   Lamb, Sarah E ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c FRENCHAY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d MORRISTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adult; Ankle; Cast; Conservative; Fracture; Operative; Orthopaedics; Surgery; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE FRACTURE; ARTICLE; CLOSE CONTACT CASTING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; OPEN REDUCTION; ORTHOPEDIC CAST; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RANGE OF MOTION; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CAST APPLICATION; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATIENT CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SAMPLE SIZE; STUDY DESIGN; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AGE FACTORS; ANKLE FRACTURES; ANKLE JOINT; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; CASTS, SURGICAL; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENGLAND; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURE HEALING; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; JOINT INSTABILITY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RESEARCH DESIGN; STATE MEDICINE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALES;

EID: 84898895179     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2474-15-79     Document Type: Article

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