Published in:
01-12-2013 | Consensus Statement
International Consensus on Periprosthetic Joint Infection: Description of the Consensus Process
Authors:
William Cats-Baril, PhD, Thorsten Gehrke, MD, Katherine Huff, BA, Daniel Kendoff, MD, Mitchell Maltenfort, PhD, Javad Parvizi, MD, FRCS
Published in:
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®
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Issue 12/2013
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Excerpt
Periprosthetic joint infection (PJI), with all its disastrous consequences, continues to pose a challenge to the orthopaedic community. Practicing orthopaedic surgeons have invested great efforts to implement strategies that may minimize surgical site infection (SSI). While new discoveries in orthopaedic research allow us to answer more questions each year on the basis of high-level evidence, there remain numerous topics—including many important ones—for which the evidence is limited, contradictory, or absent. For these clinical issues, it sometimes is helpful to know whether general consensus on diagnosis or treatment exists among individuals who specialize in these areas. …
