Surgical fixation versus non-surgical care for children with a displaced medial epicondyle fracture of the elbow (the SCIENCE study): a multicentre, randomised controlled, superiority trial and economic evaluation
National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Health Technology Assessment programme (17/18/02), with additional support from the NIHR Academy, Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, and the Starship Foundation (New Zealand).
Authors
- S. A. Hobson
- Olivia Malaga-Shaw
- Joanna Craven (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9390-3302)
- Sharon Westcar
- R. Gadd
- Shobit Verma
- Russell Hawkins
- S. Symons
- Ling Hong Lee
- S Kazzaz
- Majeed Shakokani
- Pierre Navarre (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7909-043X)
- Nev Davies
- Phillip Edge
- Nicolas Nicolaou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7540-784X)
- A. Waton
- Richard J. Napier (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9875-3208)
- Johnathan D. Craik
- Emma Douglas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-3413-3112)
- Ehab Girgis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1300-9157)
- Philip Henman
- Avijeet Ghosh
- A Ardolino
- Jennifer Preston (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4800-234X)
- SS Madan
- Paul Gibbons (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9211-2699)
- L. Tillotson
- A. Peek (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0277-5953)
- Dennis Kosuge
- Maheshi P. Wijesekera (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0204-1522)
- Clare Carpenter
- Hussain Kazi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4330-0313)
- Mariusz Chomicki
- Piers D. Mitchell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1009-697X)
- Mohamed Kenawey (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1105-5694)
- Sara Rich Dorman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6569-5454)
- Amy Moscrop
- Jo Dartnell
- Matthew Arneill
- W Marlow
- Nigel D. Rossiter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2758-7449)
- Marcus Simonian
- Colin Holton (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1556-6886)
- Parthiban Vinayakam
- Thomas F. Cash (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1128-784X)
- Guy Wansbrough (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9299-3959)
- Adrian Andronic (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6645-146X)
- Emily J. Mounsey
- Felicity J. Pease
- Elizabeth Ashby (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7912-510X)
- Rebecca G Macfarlane
- Kemble K. Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4277-9812)
- Laura Deriu
- Robert Allen Stevenson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7697-662X)
- Yael Gelfer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8212-9999)
- Alex Zimmermann
- Nirmal Tulwa
- Ruth Knight (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6810-2845)
- Pranai Buddhdev (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7321-0816)
- N. Maripuri
- Anoop Anand (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8159-1214)
- Nitin Modi
- Joshua D Rutnagur
- Rebecca Kandiyali (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8566-9536)
- Aaron Ng
- Srinivasan Shyamsundar
- Oluwarantimi Ayodele
- Belen Carsi
- Manoj Ramachandran
- P. Walmsley
- Simon Barker
- Oliver Donaldson
- Anish Sanghrajka
- Alexander Aarvold
- Amit Bidwai
- Andrew Gaffey
- Sue Deakin
- Ilias Tsolis
- Kakra Wartemberg
- Jacqueline Oien
- Matthew Nixon
- Juul Achten
- Elizabeth Moulder
- Irfan Sheikh
- Andrew Kelly
- Jochen Fischer
- Simon Robinson
- Andrew McBride
- Ahmed Elkewey
- Kathryn Price
- David Ferguson
- James G Wright
- Daniel C Perry
- Sridhar Sampalli
- Ian Baxter
- Annie Warrington
- Danielle Wharton
- Abhishek Arora
- David Bade
- Charlotte Lewis
- Aisha Razik
- James Aird
- Andrew Wright
- Rizwan Arshad
- Alfred Sime
- Sharryn Gardner
- Gaurang Shah
- Duncan Appelbe
- Helen Cockerill
- James Barnes
- Kuldeep Stohr
- Mark Deakin
- Andrew Smith
- Ellen E. Martin
- Christopher Hill
- Daphne Kounali
- Nichola Wilson
- Harvey George
- Samuel Frempong
- Lee How
- Rusul Shakir
- Catherine Young
- Matthew L Costa
- James Mason
Institutions
- Royal Children's Hospital (AU)
- University of Liverpool (GB)
- University of Auckland (NZ)
- Hospital for Sick Children (CA)
- Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre (GB)
- South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
- University of Warwick (GB)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Science Oxford (GB)
- Alder Hey Children's Hospital (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Lancet
- Published
- 2026-01-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(25)02098-7
- Primary Topic
- Elbow and Forearm Trauma Treatment
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00