Defining displacement thresholds for surgical intervention for distal radius fractures – A Delphi study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2019, Pages

  Johnson, Nick ^a   Leighton, Paul ^b   Pailthorpe, Charles ^c   Dias, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF LEICESTER NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL BERKSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMORBIDITY; DECISION MAKING; DELPHI STUDY; DISTAL RADIUS FRACTURE; HAND SURGERY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL CAPACITY; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THERAPY EFFECT; TRAUMA SURGEON; TREATMENT RESPONSE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; INTRAARTICULAR FRACTURE; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIUS FRACTURE;

ADULT; AGED; DELPHI TECHNIQUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRA-ARTICULAR FRACTURES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIUS FRACTURES; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 85059743390     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0210462     Document Type: Article

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