Table 2.
Demographic characteristics of study population (N = 924)
| Age, median (IQR) | 49 (31–63) |
| Female, no. (%) | 558 (60) |
| Mechanism of injury, no. (%) | |
| FOOSH | 607 (66) |
| Traffic accident | 77 (8) |
| Direct blow | 63 (7) |
| Traumatic hyperflexion | 26 (3) |
| Punch | 18 (2) |
| Other/unknown | 133 (14) |
| Patients with distal radius fracture, no. (%) | 402 (44) |
| Patients with isolated distal ulna fracture, no. (%) | 12 (1) |
| Patients with carpal fracture, no. (%) | 82 (9) |
| Patients with multiple wrist fractures, no. (%)# | 11 (1) |
| Treatment | |
| Expectant | 68 (7) |
| Compression bandage | 183 (20) |
| Plaster immobilisation | 447 (48) |
| Reduction and plaster immobilisation | 184 (20) |
| Primary operative | 35 (4) |
| Not recorded in patients records | 7 (1) |
IQR interquartile range, FOOSH fall on outstretched hand
#Patients with a distal radius fracture and a concomitant fracture of one or more of the carpal bones