The Epidemiology and Injury Patterns of Acetabular Fractures: Are the USA and China Comparable?
Author(s) -
Cyril Mauffrey,
Jiandong Hao,
Derly O. Cuellar,
Benoît Herbert,
Xiao Chen,
Bo Liu,
Yingze Zhang,
Wade Smith
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
clinical orthopaedics and related research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.178
H-Index - 204
eISSN - 1528-1132
pISSN - 0009-921X
DOI - 10.1007/s11999-014-3462-8
Subject(s) - medicine , epidemiology , acetabulum , china , sports medicine , orthopedic surgery , poison control , surgery , medical emergency , physical therapy , archaeology , history
Acetabular fractures are rare injuries in heterogeneous patient groups, making it difficult to develop adequately powered prospective single-center clinical trials in the USA or Europe. Chinese trauma centers treat a high volume of these injuries, and if the patient population and injury patterns are comparable to those in the USA, this might support development of multicenter studies in Level I trauma centers in the two countries.
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