Table 1.
Network patient and fracture characteristics
| Fracture Pattern | |||||||
| Treatment group | Patients, number | Treatment arms, number | Mean age in years (range) | % female | Intraarticular | Extraarticular | Not specified |
| Volar locking plate | 1441 | 36 | 62 (36 to 80) | 79 | 683 (47) | 566 (39) | 192 (13) |
| Bridging external fixation | 910 | 31 | 56 (39 to 74) | 70 | 476 (49) | 308 (32) | 180 (19) |
| Percutaneous pinning | 843 | 17 | 59 (41 to 73) | 76 | 235 (28) | 364 (43) | 244 (29) |
| Nonoperative | 810 | 24 | 61 (32 to 78) | 75 | 355 (44) | 455 (56) | 0 (0) |
| Intramedullary fixation | 285 | 10 | 60 (48 to 72) | 77 | 30 (11) | 209 (73) | 46 (9) |
| Nonbridging external fixation | 212 | 8 | 63 (62 to 64) | 79 | 45 (21) | 91 (43) | 76 (36) |
| Dynamic external fixation | 127 | 4 | 44 (34 to 54) | 48 | 49 (39) | 40 (31) | 38 (30) |
| Fragment-specific plating | 97 | 6 | 47 (24 to 60) | 75 | 64 (66) | 9 (9) | 24 (25) |
| Dorsal plate | 64 | 3 | 59 (45 to 74) | 61 | 64 (100) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
For fracture pattern, values are number of patients with proportion listed in parentheses.