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2442. Detection of Prosthetic Hip and Knee Joint Infections Using Administrative Databases – A Validation Study

BACKGROUND: Forming large cohorts to study prosthetic joint infections (PJIs) is a challenge without an existing surgical registry, as is the case in Canada. Administrative databases are an option, yet PJI diagnostic codes are insensitive. There is a need to improve the detection of PJIs from within...

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Autores principales: Kandel, Christopher, Jenkinson, Richard, Davey, Roderick, Widdifield, Jessica, Hansen, Bettina, Muller, Matthew P, Daneman, Nick, McGeer, Allison
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6810127/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz360.2120