Table 2.
Comparison of clinical notes' comments between changed and unchanged decisions
| Percentage of comments in radiographically healed decisions | Percentage of comments in radiographically unhealed decisions | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Content of clinical notes' comments* | Changed to 'unhealed' after clinical notes | No change | Changed into 'healed' after clinical notes | No change | |
| Weightbearing | Positive | 20 | 71 | 100 | 42 |
| Neutral | 20 | 29 | 0 | 53 | |
| Negative | 60 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
| Pain | Positive | 28 | 44 | 82 | 45 |
| Neutral | 4 | 28 | 9 | 45 | |
| Negative | 68 | 28 | 9 | 10 | |
| Return to work/leisure activities | Positive | 16.5 | 50 | 100 | 50 |
| Neutral | 16.5 | 30 | 0 | 0 | |
| Negative | 67 | 20 | 0 | 50 | |
| Overall | Positive | 21.5 | 55 | 94 | 45.6 |
| Neural | 13.5 | 29 | 3 | 32.6 | |
| Negative | 65 | 16 | 3 | 21.6 | |
* A positive content refers to a comment about weightbearing, pain, or return to work/leisure activities which is suggestive of a healed fracture, whereas a negative content suggests that the fracture was not healed yet. A comment was judged to be neutral when it was found neither suggestive of a healed, nor of an unhealed fracture.