Working toward reducing postoperative fracture radiographs: a survey of Canadian surgeons

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