TY  - JOUR
T1  - Nondisplaced Scaphoid Fractures: Assessment and Treatment
AU  - Ring, David
AU  - Bond, Charles D.
AU  - Shin, Alexander Y.
AU  - McBride, Mark T.
AU  - Dao, Khiem D.
Y1  - 2002/01/01
N1  - 
JO  - The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery
SP  - 144
EP  - 145
VL  - 84
IS  - 1
N2  - 
Randomized trials comparing operative and nonoperative treatment
are prohibitively difficult to perform because patients are unwilling
to leave such an important treatment decision to chance. The authors
were able to enroll only twenty-five of sixty-two eligible patients
under what might be considered ideal circumstances—a captive military
population. I have been much less successful with such trials in
my hospital, and I am grateful to the authors for their achievement.
Alternative study methods such as open-label trials with careful
accounting for important variables may be necessary to compare operative
and nonoperative treatment.

SN  - 0021-9355
M3  - doi: 
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ER  -