Assessment of Treatment Variability for Pelvic Ring Fragility Fractures

Exclusion Criteria18

• Patient did not ambulate prior to injury.
• Severely frail patients (Clinical Frailty Scale ≥7).
• Patient has another condition, injury, or fracture that prevents post-operative weightbearing on any extremity.
• Retained implants around the pelvis that precludes or limits either study treatment.
• Infection around the hip (soft tissue or bone).
• Pathologic fracture with a lytic lesion in the pelvis or sacrum that precludes internal fixation.
• Patient is too ill, in the judgement of the attending surgeon, for internal fixation.
• Patient is too ill, in the judgement of the attending surgeon, for nonoperative care.
• Problems, in the judgment of study personnel, with maintaining follow-up with the patient.
• Expected injury survival of less than 12 months.
• Terminal illness with expected survival of less than 12 months.
• Currently enrolled in a study that does not permit co-enrollment.
• Prior enrollment in the study.
• Unable to obtain informed consent due to language barriers.
• Unable to obtain informed consent because a legally authorized representative (LAR) was unavailable.
• Did not provide informed consent (declined participation).
• Patient or LAR not approached to participate in the trial (missed patient).
• Other reason to exclude the patient, as approved by the Principal Investigator.