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The DRAFFT2 –Distal Radius Acute Fracture Fixation Trial 2 has now opened its first 2 sites for recruitment. Peterborough City Hospital and Royal Stoke University Hospital are now recruiting patients for the trial which is comparing two different ways of fixing bones within the broken wrist: K-wires and plaster cast.

Most fractures can be treated without the need for surgery. However, for the more serious wrist injuries, the treating surgeon may recommend an operation to restore the normal position of the wrist bones. This study is for patients who are having surgery for their broken wrist.

Both techniques are used routinely throughout the NHS, but we don’t know which one works best.

  • This is a multi-centre, multi-surgeon, parallel, two-arm, randomised controlled trial. It is planned to run across 16 sites in the UK and recruit 476 patients.
  • Patients over the age of 16 with a dorsally displaced fracture of the distal radius are potentially eligible for the trial.
  • We will ask all patients to report their own recovery using a questionnaire at 3 months, 6 months and 12 months after the treatment. The trial will also collect important information for secondary outcomes on quality of life, complications, resource use, costs and comparative cost effectiveness.

For more information and contacts, please visit https://www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/clinical-trials/current-trials-and-studies/drafft-2