Annals of internal medicine
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Review Meta Analysis
The accuracy of the Ottawa knee rule to rule out knee fractures: a systematic review.
The Ottawa knee rule is a clinical decision aid that helps rule out fractures and avoid unnecessary radiography. ⋯ A negative result on an Ottawa knee rule test accurately excluded knee fractures after acute knee injury. However, because the rule is calibrated toward 100% sensitivity and actual fracture prevalences are usually low, large-scale, multicentered studies are still needed to establish the cost-effectiveness of routinely implementing the rule.
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Review Meta Analysis
The accuracy of the Ottawa knee rule to rule out knee fractures: a systematic review.
The Ottawa knee rule is a clinical decision aid that helps rule out fractures and avoid unnecessary radiography. ⋯ A negative result on an Ottawa knee rule test accurately excluded knee fractures after acute knee injury. However, because the rule is calibrated toward 100% sensitivity and actual fracture prevalences are usually low, large-scale, multicentered studies are still needed to establish the cost-effectiveness of routinely implementing the rule.
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Enhancing patient choice is a central theme of medical ethics and law. Informed consent is the legal process used to promote patient autonomy; shared decision making is a widely promoted ethical approach. These processes may most usefully be seen as distinct in clinically and ethically important respects. ⋯ For decisions of lower risk, consent should still be present, but it can be simple rather than informed. Clinicians may use this analysis as a guide to their own interactions with patients. In the continuing effort to provide patients with appropriate decisional authority over their own medical choices, shared decision making, informed consent, and simple consent each has a distinct role to play.