Report by N Greville Farrar, Senior House Officer

Search checked by Shafic Said Al-Nammari, Registrar and Craig Ferguson, Registrar

Institution: Leicester Royal Infirmary/University of Leicester, Leicester, UK; The Royal London Hospital, London, UK; Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK

A shortcut review was carried out to establish which of a dorsal or radial backslab application was associated with the lowest rate of revision after Colles’ fracture reduction. A total of 105 papers was found using the reported searches of which none presented any evidence to answer the clinical question. It is concluded that there is no evidence …