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01-12-2020 | Pyarthrosis | Reply to Letter to the Editor

Reply to Letter to the Editor: Pediatric Septic Arthritis and Osteomyelitis in the USA: A National KID Database Analysis

Authors: Gabriella Safdieh, MD, Jason Silberman, BA, Joseph Nguyen, MPH, Shevaun Doyle, MD, John Blanco, MD, David Scher, MD, Daniel Green, MD, MS, Roger Widmann, MD, Emily Dodwell, MD, MPH, FRCSC

Published in: HSS Journal ® | Special Issue 2/2020

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We appreciate the opportunity to respond to the issues raised by Drs. Rehm and Thahir in their letter, to clarify aspects of our methodology in relation to these concerns, and to present a comparison of our work [9] with that of Okubo et al. [5, 6]. We thank Drs. Rehm and Thahir for their interest in our study. …

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Title: Reply to Letter to the Editor: Pediatric Septic Arthritis and Osteomyelitis in the USA: A National KID Database Analysis
Authors: Gabriella Safdieh, MD
Jason Silberman, BA
Joseph Nguyen, MPH
Shevaun Doyle, MD
John Blanco, MD
David Scher, MD
Daniel Green, MD, MS
Roger Widmann, MD
Emily Dodwell, MD, MPH, FRCSC
Publication date: 01-12-2020
Publisher: Springer US
Keywords: Pyarthrosis
Osteomyelitis
Published in: HSS Journal ® / Issue Special Issue 2/2020
Print ISSN: 1556-3316
Electronic ISSN: 1556-3324
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11420-020-09768-2

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Reply to Letter to the Editor: Pediatric Septic Arthritis and Osteomyelitis in the USA: A National KID Database Analysis

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