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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study Retracted Publication
A Multicentre Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Plating with Intramedullary Nailing for Extra-articular Distal Tibial Fractures.
This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal). Injury was alerted to concerns regarding similarities of the data of this study to those published in the FixDIT UK trial.1 The investigators were invited to reply to the issues raised and were also asked to provide their original dataset available to the Editor-in-Chief. ⋯ Costa ML, Achten J, Griffin J, Petrou S, Pallister I, Lamb SE, Parsons NR; FixDT Trial Investigators Effect of Locking Plate Fixation vs Intramedullary Nail Fixation on 6-Month Disability Among Adults With Displaced Fracture of the Distal Tibia: The UK FixDT Randomized Clinical Trial.. JAMA. 2017 Nov 14;318(18):1767-1776.