Ottawa Ankle Rules in primary care - awareness, importance and use by family physicians

Creative Commons License

Cevik H., Cevik H. B., UZUNER A.

FAMILY MEDICINE AND PRIMARY CARE REVIEW, cilt.21, sa.4, ss.324-328, 2019 (ESCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 21 Sayı: 4
  • Basım Tarihi: 2019
  • Doi Numarası: 10.5114/fmpcr.2019.90160
  • Dergi Adı: FAMILY MEDICINE AND PRIMARY CARE REVIEW
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.324-328
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: primary health care, algorithms, ankle fractures, CLINICAL-PREDICTION RULES, DECISION RULES, INJURIES, RADIOGRAPHY, IMPLEMENTATION, FRACTURES, EMERGENCY, FOOT
  • Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Background. With the implementation by family physicians of the Ottawa Ankle Rules (OAR), which are clinical decision rules for ankle trauma, referral rates to secondary hospitals could be decreased and the majority of these problems could be resolved for patients in primary care.