Assessment of fracture healing by an independent data monitoring committee
fracture, fractures, trauma
Radiographs were reviewed, and fracture healing was assessed by five independent reviewers from the clinical trial. All reviewers were expert orthopedic trauma surgeons and were selected as being eligible to judge radiological fracture healing appropriately. They reviewed the radiographs of all patients and historical controls individually and noted whether fractures were healed or not in a dedicated form, wherein the scores of the radiographic union scale in tibial fractures (RUST) [