Clinical Study

[Retracted] The Effect of Synthetic Osteoconductive Bone Graft Material for Augmentation of Internally Fixed Unstable Trochanteric Fractures

Table 3

Mean (standard deviation) pain score as assessed by VAS during walking, and mHHS for the functional assessment in the two groups at two six months and two years after surgery (a score of 0 indicates no pain and 100 indicates the worst possible pain).

At postoperative 2 months2 years
CaPControlP valueCaPControlP value

Pain VAS30450.12115 (12)16 (11)0.816
mHHS46 (18)51 (15)0.56890 (7)89 (9)0.415

VAS: visual analogue scale; mHHS: modified Harris Hip score; CaP: calcium phosphate.