Meaning
fracture, fractures
SECONDARY
These findings suggest that surgeons should place emphasis on a patient’s baseline activity level and number of comorbidities to guide operative treatment decisions of distal radius fractures in older adults, even if these individuals have an advanced chronologic age.This secondary analysis of the Wrist and Radius Injury Surgical Trial examines differences in outcomes after distal radius fracture managed with casting vs surgery in patients stratified by physiologic vs chronologic age.