Is a subgroup claim believable? A user's guide to subgroup analyses in the surgical literature

J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2011 Feb 2;93(3):e8. doi: 10.2106/JBJS.I.01555.

Authors

Study to Prospectively Evaluate Reamed Intramedullary Nails in Tibial Fractures (SPRINT) Investigators¹; Xin Sun, Diane Heels-Ansdell, Stephen D Walter, Gordon Guyatt, Sheila Sprague, Mohit Bhandari, David Sanders, Emil Schemitsch, Paul Tornetta 3rd, Marc Swiontkowski

Collaborators

Study to Prospectively Evaluate Reamed Intramedullary Nails in Tibial Fractures (SPRINT) Investigators:
Xin Sun, Diane Heels-Ansdell, Sheila Sprague, Mohit Bhandari, Stephen D Walter, David Sanders, Emil Schemitsch, Paul Tornetta 3rd, Marc Swiontkowski, Gordon Guyatt, Mohit Bhandari, Gordon Guyatt, Gordon Guyatt, Mohit Bhandari, David W Sanders, Emil H Schemitsch, Marc Swiontkowski, Paul Tornetta 3rd, Stephen Walter, Gordon Guyatt, Mohit Bhandari, David W Sanders, Emil H Schemitsch, Marc Swiontkowski, Paul Tornetta 3rd, Stephen Walter, Gordon Guyatt, Mohit Bhandari, David W Sanders, Emil H Schemitsch, Marc Swiontkowski, Paul Tornetta 3rd, Stephen Walter, Sheila Sprague, Diane Heels-Ansdell, Lisa Buckingham, Pamela Leece, Helena Viveiros, Tashay Mignott, Natalie Ansell, Natalie Sidorkewicz, Julie Agel, Claire Bombardier, Jesse A Berlin, Michael Bosse, Bruce Browner, Brenda Gillespie, Peter O'Brien, Julie Agel, Sheila Sprague, Rudolf Poolman, Mohit Bhandari

Affiliation

¹ Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, HSC 2C, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L8N 3Z5, Canada. sunx26@mcmaster.ca

No abstract available

Publication types

Comparative Study
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Fracture Fixation, Intramedullary
Fractures, Bone
Fractures, Closed
Humans
Prospective Studies
Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
Research Design*
Smoking
Surgical Procedures, Operative*
Tibial Fractures / surgery

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