Polytrauma and High-energy Injury Mechanisms Are Associated with Worse Patient-reported Outcomes After Distal Radius Fractures.

CONCLUSIONS: High-energy injury mechanisms and worse HRQoL scores were independently associated with slightly inferior wrist function after wrist fractures. Along with relatively well-known demographic and injury characteristics (gender and articular involvement), factors related to injury context (polytrauma, high-energy trauma) may account for differences in patient-reported wrist function after distal radius fractures. This information may be used to counsel patients who suffer a wrist fracture from polytrauma or high-energy trauma and to put their outcomes in context. Future research should prospectively explore whether our findings can be used to help providers to set better expectations on expected recovery.
LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level III, therapeutic study.
PMID: 30985610 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research - April 8, 2019 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: van der Vliet QMJ, Sweet AAR, Bhashyam AR, Ferree S, van Heijl M, Houwert RM, Leenen LPH, Hietbrink F Tags: Clin Orthop Relat Res Source Type: research