Health and Care Data: Approaches to data linkage for evidence-informed policy.

An indispensable prerequisite for answering research questions in health services research is the availability and accessibility of comprehensive, high-quality data. It can be assumed that health services research in the coming years will be increasingly based on data linkage, i.e.

Intra-articular distal tibial fractures cause a major burden to individual patients and also stresses the public health care system.

Background And Purpose: Intra-articular distal tibial fractures are most commonly caused by high-energy trauma. Additional difficulties are related to accompanying soft-tissue injuries. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the consequences of different types of distal tibial fractures to the individual patient and to the public health care system.

Functional outcome of routine versus on-demand removal of the syndesmotic screw: a multicentre randomized controlled trial.

Aims: The aim of this study was to investigate whether on-demand removal (ODR) is noninferior to routine removal (RR) of syndesmotic screws regarding functional outcome.

Methods: Adult patients (aged above 17 years) with traumatic syndesmotic injury, surgically treated within 14 days of trauma using one or two syndesmotic screws, were eligible (n = 490) for inclusion in this randomized controlled noninferiority trial. A total of 197 patients were randomized for either ODR (retaining the syndesmotic screw unless there were complaints warranting removal) or RR (screw removed at eight to 12 weeks after syndesmotic fixation), of whom 152 completed the study.

Engagements with uncertain futures - Analysing survivalist preparedness.

Much like any grand-scale social disturbance, COVID-19 has brought increasing attention to emergency preparedness on global, national, and individual levels. Although independent preparedness is considered to play an important role in disturbance and emergency-related survival, little attention has been paid to the ways in which individuals conduct their preparations or the social aspects of these preparatory activities. This article investigates the ways in which survivalists engage with uncertain futures by preparing.

Correction to: Routine versus on demand removal of the syndesmotic screw; a protocol for an international randomised controlled trial (RODEO-trial).

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.