Operative versus non-operative treatment for closed, displaced, intra-articular fractures of the calcaneus: Randomised controlled trial

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 349, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Griffin, Damian ^a   Parsons, Nick ^a   Shaw, Ewart ^a   Kulikov, Yuri ^a   Hutchinson, Charles ^a   Thorogood, Margaret ^a   Lamb, Sarah E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCANEUS FRACTURE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOT PAIN; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GAIT; HUMAN; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JOINT MOBILIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REOPERATION; SURGICAL INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED KINGDOM; VERY ELDERLY; WALKING SPEED;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALCANEUS; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, BONE; FRACTURES, CLOSED; HUMANS; INTRA-ARTICULAR FRACTURES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; PILOT PROJECTS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REOPERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904600986     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.g4483     Document Type: Article

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