Andrew Lawson, Justine M Naylor, Rachelle Buchbinder, Rebecca Ivers, Zsolt J Balogh, Paul Smith, Wei Xuan, Kirsten Howard, Arezoo Vafa, Diana Perriman, Rajat Mittal, Piers Yates, Bertram Rieger, Geoff Smith, Sam Adie, Ilia Elkinson, Woosung Kim, Jai Sungaran, Kim Latendresse, James Wong, Sameer Viswanathan, Keith Landale, Herwig Drobetz, Phong Tran, Richard Page, Sally Beattie, Jonathan Mulford, Ian Incoll, Michael Kale, Bernard Schick, Trent Li, Andrew Higgs, Andrew Oppy, Ian A Harris
Importance: The burden of injury and costs of wrist fractures are substantial. Surgical treatment became popular without strong supporting evidence. Objective: To assess whether current surgical treatment for displaced distal radius fractures provided better patient-reported wrist pain and function than nonsurgical treatment in patients 60 years and older. Design, Setting, and Participants: In this multicenter randomized clinical trial and parallel observational study, 300 eligible patients were screened from 19 centers in Australia and New Zealand from December 1, 2016, until December 31, 2018...
January 13, 2021: JAMA Surgery