TY - JOUR
T1 - Consensus document for the diagnosis of prosthetic joint infections
T2 - a joint paper by the EANM, EBJIS, and ESR (with ESCMID endorsement)
AU - Signore, Alberto
AU - Sconfienza, Luca Maria
AU - Borens, Olivier
AU - Glaudemans, Andor W.J.M.
AU - Casar-Pullicino, Victor
AU - Trampuz, Andrej
AU - Winkler, Heinz
AU - Gheysens, Olivier
AU - Vanhoenacker, Filip M.H.M.
AU - Petrosillo, Nicola
AU - Jutte, Paul C.
PY - 2019/1/26
Y1 - 2019/1/26
N2 - Background: For the diagnosis of prosthetic joint infection, real evidence-based guidelines to aid clinicians in choosing the most accurate diagnostic strategy are lacking. Aim and Methods: To address this need, we performed a multidisciplinary systematic review of relevant nuclear medicine, radiological, orthopaedic, infectious, and microbiological literature to define the diagnostic accuracy of each diagnostic technique and to address and provide evidence-based answers on uniform statements for each topic that was found to be important to develop a commonly agreed upon diagnostic flowchart. Results and Conclusion: The approach used to prepare this set of multidisciplinary guidelines was to define statements of interest and follow the procedure indicated by the Oxford Centre for Evidence-based Medicine (OCEBM).
AB - Background: For the diagnosis of prosthetic joint infection, real evidence-based guidelines to aid clinicians in choosing the most accurate diagnostic strategy are lacking. Aim and Methods: To address this need, we performed a multidisciplinary systematic review of relevant nuclear medicine, radiological, orthopaedic, infectious, and microbiological literature to define the diagnostic accuracy of each diagnostic technique and to address and provide evidence-based answers on uniform statements for each topic that was found to be important to develop a commonly agreed upon diagnostic flowchart. Results and Conclusion: The approach used to prepare this set of multidisciplinary guidelines was to define statements of interest and follow the procedure indicated by the Oxford Centre for Evidence-based Medicine (OCEBM).
KW - Guideline
KW - Imaging
KW - Infection diagnosis
KW - Prosthetic joint infection
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U2 - 10.1007/s00259-019-4263-9
DO - 10.1007/s00259-019-4263-9
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85060716724
SP - 971
EP - 988
JO - European Journal of Pediatrics
JF - European Journal of Pediatrics
SN - 0340-6199
ER -