Fig 1.
Flow diagram of selection of studies.
Table 1.
Characteristics of included studies.
Table 2.
Detail of intervention.
Fig 2.
The red with a minus means high risk of bias; the yellow with a question mark means unclear; the green with a plus means low risk of bias.
Fig 3.
Forest plot for radiological fracture healing time.
Fig 4.
Forest plot for radiological fracture healing rate.
Table 3.
Sensitivity analyses based on various exclusion criteria for fracture healing rate.
Fig 5.
Forest plot for radiological fracture pain degree.
Table 4.
Sensitivity analyses based on various exclusion criteria for pain degree.
Fig 6.
Forest plot for radiological fracture functional outcome.
Table 5.
Sensitivity analyses based on various exclusion criteria for functional outcome.
Table 6.
Adverse effects.