Development and Validation of a Preoperative Surgical Site Infection Risk Score for Primary or Revision Knee and Hip Arthroplasty

Conclusions:
The patient comorbidities composing the risk score heavily influenced SSI risk for primary or revision knee and hip arthroplasty. We believe that infection risk can be objectively determined in a preoperative setting with the proposed SSI risk score.

Source: JBJS - September 20, 2016 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Everhart, J. S., Andridge, R. R., Scharschmidt, T. J., Mayerson, J. L., Glassman, A. H., Lemeshow, S. Tags: Hip, Infection, Knee Scientific Articles Source Type: research