In younger adults with unstable ankle fractures treated with close contact casting, is ankle function not worse than those treated with surgical intervention?

Registered study from ISRCTN registry. Evidence status: source reported.

Organisation

University of Oxford

Published

2019-10-01

Source reference

ISRCTN67007305

Jurisdiction

Not assessed

Licence

ISRCTN registry: metadata CC0, free text CC BY 4.0 (source: ISRCTN, www.isrctn.com). Contact details not imported.

Sponsor: University of Oxford · Interventional study · Funders: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies Co-ordinating Centre (NETSCC); Grant Codes: NIHR127273 · Conditions: Unstable ankle fractures · Found via: Hospital Episode Statistics

Source: https://www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN67007305. Captured 2026-10-29.

Limitations: Registration details as submitted to ISRCTN. Found by a keyword search for Hospital Episode Statistics; the registration does not confirm that the study used that data resource, and no access authorisation is linked. Only registrations from 2019-02-01 are imported, so earlier studies are missing.