Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8718557 | Injury | 2018 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
Patients evaluated in this study were not a random sample of Americans; they may approximate a random sample of the Emergency Department population in the United States. Thus, trauma patients may represent a population enriched for nonunion risk factors. Opioids impair recovery from injury; if they also predispose to injury, the ongoing opioid epidemic could presage an increase in nonunion prevalence.
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Authors
Thomas Buchheit, Robert Zura, Zhe Wang, Samir Mehta, Gregory J. Della Rocca, R. Grant Steen,