Functional Outcomes in the Distal End of Radius Fracture: A Prospective Study in a Tertiary Care Center.

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Conflict of interest statement: Human subjects: Consent for treatment and open access publication was obtained or waived by all participants in this study. Institutional Ethical Committee, Jammu issued approval IEC/GMC/2022/8/8. Animal subjects: All authors have confirmed that this study did not involve animal subjects or tissue. Conflicts of interest: In compliance with the ICMJE uniform disclosure form, all authors declare the following: Payment/services info: All authors have declared that no financial support was received from any organization for the submitted work. Financial relationships: All authors have declared that they have no financial relationships at present or within the previous three years with any organizations that might have an interest in the submitted work. Other relationships: All authors have declared that there are no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work. 6. Acta Orthop Traumatol Turc. 2013;47(3):153-7. doi: 10.3944/aott.2013.3038. Reliability and reproducibility of classifications for distal radius fractures. Küçük L(1), Kumbaracı M, Günay H, Karapınar L, Ozdemir O. Author information: (1)Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Faculty of Medicine, Ege University, İzmir, Turkey. kucuklevent@yahoo.com OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to evaluate the interobserver reliability and intraobserver reproducibility of the Universal, AO, Fernandez and Frykman classifications for distal radius fractures. METHODS: Fifty standard sets of posteroanterior and lateral roentgenograms of displaced distal radius fractures were classified two times by two groups of evaluators at 2-month intervals. The first group consisted of 10 orthopedic surgeons with a minimum of 5 years of experience. The second group consisted of 10 orthopedic residents in their first two years of practice. Interobserver reliability and intraobserver reproducibility were assessed using Cohen's kappa test. RESULTS: None of the classifications achieved good- very good reliability levels. The Fernandez classification had a moderate and the others had a fair interobserver agreement kappa coefficient. All classifications had fair kappa intraobserver agreement although the Frykman and Fernandez classifications had better results. CONCLUSION: None of the classification systems were superior in terms of reliability and reproducibility. The reliability and reproducibility rates of all four classifications were insufficient. DOI: 10.3944/aott.2013.3038