%0 Journal Article
%T Working toward reducing postoperative fracture radiographs: a survey of Canadian surgeons
%A Ted Tufescu
%J Archive of "Canadian Journal of Surgery".
%D 2016
%R 10.1503/cjs.005715
%X When fracture management includes operative fixation with a load-sharing construct in good-quality bone, screening for healing problems or hardware failure with radiographs in the first 6 postoperative weeks may be unnecessary. I sought to determine Canadian orthopedic surgeons¡¯ current protocol for early postoperative radiographs of stable, internally fixed fractures as well as their willingness to adopt a simplified protocol
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4734915/