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  • * After three rounds of surveys, 18 out of 68 factors were identified as influential, with stable consensus on factors that favor operative treatment including professional athlete status and specific fracture characteristics.
  • * Most disagreement arose regarding treatment for certain injuries, especially those involving an anterolateral coronoid tip fracture, indicating a need for more clarity in treatment guidelines among surgeons.
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Background: Tibial plateau fractures are often complex, and they can be challenging to treat. Classifying fractures is often part of the treatment process, but intra- and interobserver reliability of fracture classification systems often is inadequate to the task, and classifications that lack reliability can mislead providers and result in harm to patients. Three-dimensionally (3D)-printed models might help in this regard, but whether that is the case for the classification of tibial plateau fractures, and whether the utility of such models might vary by the experience of the individual classifying the fractures, is unknown.

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