An economic analysis of management strategies for closed and open grade I tibial shaft fractures.

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Published in Acta Orthop on October 01, 2005

Authors

Jason W Busse1, Mohit Bhandari, Sheila Sprague, Ana P Johnson-Masotti, Amiram Gafni

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. j.busse@utoronto.ca

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