Study design
fracture
This pragmatic, randomized controlled, multicenter trial compared two commonly used below elbow cast positions (VFUDC and FC) in patients 65 years and older who had sustained a dorsally angulated distal radius fracture. The patients for this study were enrolled at three large emergency hospitals in Finland: Tampere University Hospital (Tampere), Central Finland Central Hospital (Jyväskylä), and Satakunta Central Hospital (Pori). The study protocol has been published elsewhere, Raittio et al. [