| Title |
Incidence of Surgical Site Infection After Spine Surgery: What Is the Impact of the Definition of Infection?
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Clinical Orthopaedics & Related Research, September 2014
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| DOI | 10.1007/s11999-014-3933-y |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Sjoerd P. F. T. Nota, Yvonne Braun, David Ring, Joseph H. Schwab |
| Abstract |
Orthopaedic surgical site infections (SSIs) can delay recovery, add impairments, and decrease quality of life, particularly in patients undergoing spine surgery, in whom SSIs may also be more common. Efforts to prevent and treat SSIs of the spine rely on the identification and registration of these adverse events in large databases. The effective use of these databases to answer clinical questions depends on how the conditions in question, such as infection, are defined in the databases queried, but the degree to which different definitions of infection might cause different risk factors to be identified by those databases has not been evaluated. |
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| United States | 1 | 50% |
| Unknown | 1 | 50% |
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| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 1 | 50% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 50% |
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| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 134 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
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| Researcher | 21 | 15% |
| Other | 12 | 9% |
| Student > Master | 12 | 9% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 11 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 10 | 7% |
| Other | 35 | 26% |
| Unknown | 36 | 26% |
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| Medicine and Dentistry | 67 | 49% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 8 | 6% |
| Neuroscience | 3 | 2% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2 | 1% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 2 | 1% |
| Other | 12 | 9% |
| Unknown | 43 | 31% |
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