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308. Identification of Prosthetic Hip and Knee Joint Infections in Administrative Databases

BACKGROUND: Canada lacks a prosthetic hip and knee joint infection (PJI) registry, leaving active surveillance to be orchestrated by individual hospitals, which is limited by cost and narrow scope. Administrative databases are potentially an ideal instrument for infection surveillance, but detection...

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Autores principales: Kandel, Christopher, Davey, J Roderick, Daneman, Nick, McGeer, Allison
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6254234/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy210.319