Audit of upper limb fracture management in an accident and emergency department.
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Audit of upper limb fracture management in an accident and emergency department.
The objective of this study was to audit the initial management of patients with upper limb fractures, and to determine whether the accident and emergency (A&E) management of fractures is improved by using guidelines for treatment and referral. This was achieved by comparing the standard of treatment, as determined by fracture clinic doctors, before and after the introduction of fracture treatm...
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عنوان ژورنال: Emergency Medicine Journal
سال: 1994
ISSN: 1472-0205,1472-0213
DOI: 10.1136/emj.11.2.105