Prosthetic Joint Infection Risk after TKA in the Medicare Population

M. Kurtz, Steven; Ong, Kevin; Lau, Edward; J. Bozic, Kevin; J. Berry, Daniel; Parvizi, Javad

doi:10.1007/s11999-009-1013-5

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Prosthetic Joint Infection Risk after TKA in the Medicare Population

Published in Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research • Aug 7, 2009

Authors:

Steven M. Kurtz

Kevin Ong

Edward Lau

Abstract

UNLABELLED: The current risk of infection in contemporary total knee arthroplasty (TKA) as well as the relative importance of risk factors remains under debate as a result of the rarity of the complication and temporal changes in the treatment and prevention of infection. We therefore determined inf...

Subject

Medicine

Incidence (geometry)

Periprosthetic

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