The importance of appropriate diagnostics in prosthetic joint infection: letter to the editor of BMC musculoskeletal disorders

Assessment of a new diagnostic test must be performed against an acceptable and validated standard to allow comparison with other studies. We are concerned that the adoption of lower diagnostic criteria in this paper has contributed to an over-diagnosis of prosthetic joint infection and makes interp...

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Autores principales: McNally, Martin, Wouthuyzen-Bakker, Marjan, Sousa, Ricardo, Atkins, Bridget, Soriano, Alex
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7941875/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33685403
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12891-021-04117-8
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author McNally, Martin
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spelling pubmed-79418752021-03-09 The importance of appropriate diagnostics in prosthetic joint infection: letter to the editor of BMC musculoskeletal disorders McNally, Martin Wouthuyzen-Bakker, Marjan Sousa, Ricardo Atkins, Bridget Soriano, Alex BMC Musculoskelet Disord Correspondence Assessment of a new diagnostic test must be performed against an acceptable and validated standard to allow comparison with other studies. We are concerned that the adoption of lower diagnostic criteria in this paper has contributed to an over-diagnosis of prosthetic joint infection and makes interpretation of the results difficult. BioMed Central 2021-03-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7941875/ /pubmed/33685403 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12891-021-04117-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Wouthuyzen-Bakker, Marjan
Sousa, Ricardo
Atkins, Bridget
Soriano, Alex
The importance of appropriate diagnostics in prosthetic joint infection: letter to the editor of BMC musculoskeletal disorders
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title_short The importance of appropriate diagnostics in prosthetic joint infection: letter to the editor of BMC musculoskeletal disorders
title_sort importance of appropriate diagnostics in prosthetic joint infection: letter to the editor of bmc musculoskeletal disorders
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7941875/
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