Infection burden for hip and knee arthroplasty in the United States.

By S. Kurtz, E. Lau, J. Schmier, K. Ong, Ke Zhao, J. Parvizi. Journal of Arthroplasty, 2008

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Subfields: Surgery

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1. J. Parvizi
2. J. Schmier
3. Heather Watson
4. S. Kurtz
5. E. Lau

Citations in the corpus

• Economic burden of periprosthetic joint infection in the United States. (2012, methodology): “The true economic burden of PJI on the US health care is currently unknown as there are very few published studies relevant to this issue [3,4,12-14].”
• Clinical practice guidelines for antimicrobial prophylaxis in surgery. (2013, neutral): “Studies have found that the estimated economic impact of one deep SSI was $100,000 in hospital cost alone after hip arthroplasty and $60,000 after knee arthroplasty [727–731].”
• The relationship between the nanostructure of titanium surfaces and bacterial attachment. (2010, background): “It was further revealed that of these total arthroplasties performed in 2004, 38,629 THA and 36,425 TKA were due to revision surgeries [4].”