Reaming Does Not Affect Functional Outcomes After Open and Closed Tibial Shaft Fractures: The Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We sought to determine the effect of reaming on 1-year 36-item short-form general health survey (SF-36) and short musculoskeletal function assessment (SMFA) scores from the Study to Prospectively Evaluate Reamed Intramedullary Nails in patients with Tibial Fractures.

Design

Prospective randomized controlled trial.1319 patients were randomized to reamed or unreamed nails. Fractures were categorized as open or closed.

Setting

Twenty-nine academic and community health centers across the US, Canada, and the Netherlands.

Patients/participants

One thousand three hundred and nineteen skeletally mature patients with closed and open diaphyseal tibia fractures.

Intervention

Reamed versus unreamed tibial nails.

Main outcome measurements

SF-36 and

SUBMITTER: Lin CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4761270 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature