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Surgical site infections following hip and knee arthroplastic surgery: Trends and risk factors of Staphylococcus aureus infections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2018

Jana Prattingerová*
Affiliation:
Infectious Disease Control and Vaccination Unit, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Helsinki, Finland European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden
Emmi Sarvikivi
Affiliation:
Infectious Disease Control and Vaccination Unit, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Helsinki, Finland
Kaisa Huotari
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Inflammation Center, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Jukka Ollgren
Affiliation:
Infectious Disease Control and Vaccination Unit, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Helsinki, Finland
Outi Lyytikäinen
Affiliation:
Infectious Disease Control and Vaccination Unit, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Helsinki, Finland
*
Author for correspondence: Jana Prattingerová, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Mannerheimintie 166, FI-00271 Helsinki, Finland. E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

We investigated surgical site infections (SSIs) following hip and knee arthroplasties to evaluate predictors of SSI. We found a significant increase in deep Staphylococcus aureus (SA) SSIs despite the decreasing overall SSI rate. The risk of deep SA-SSI differed between genders and among age groups and was affected by timing of surgery.

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Concise Communication
Copyright
© 2018 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved. 

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Footnotes

Cite this article: Prattingerová J, et al. (2019) Surgical site infections following hip and knee arthroplastic surgery: Trends and risk factors of Staphylococcus aureus infections. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology 2019, 40, 211–213. doi: 10.1017/ice.2018.312

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