However, a new finding found that 35% of patients presenting to ED with scaphoid injury were not referred further for Orthopaedic assessment to exclude scaphoid fracture.\nImplementation of a 'Scaphoid Management Protocol' significantly improved compliance to NICE guidelines of MRI imaging resulting in...
FractureImagingOccultRiskScaphoidIntroduction: Despite scaphoid fractures being relatively uncommon pro-active treatment of suspected fractures has been seen as a risk management strategy. The poor positive predictive value of X-rays has led to published guidelines advocating MRI as a first-line or early...