Outcomes of open tibial fracture surgery: beyond the operating room.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Incidence of nonunion after open tibia fractures in Malawi : associated factors and Radiographic Union Score for Tibial fractures reliability.Bone & joint open · 2026
   Article
2. Impact on outcomes of a personalized educational intervention for surgeons in the management of open tibial fractures in Latin America: a before-and-after study in three low- and middle-income countries.European journal of orthopaedic surgery & traumatology : orthopedie traumatologie · 2025
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3. Do Open Fracture Classification Systems Predict Functional Outcomes in a Low-Income Country?: A Prospective Study of 287 People with Open Tibia Fractures in Malawi.JB & JS open access
   Article

Corrections and comments

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  Functional outcomes and quality of life at 1-year follow-up after an open tibia fracture in Malawi: a multicentre, prospective cohort study.2023

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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