2024
Corticosteroid Injections Administered Within 4 Weeks Prior to Hip Arthroscopy Are Associated With Higher Rates of Postoperative Infection
Surucu S, Halperin S, Monahan P, Gillinov S, Lee M, Grauer J, Jimenez A. Corticosteroid Injections Administered Within 4 Weeks Prior to Hip Arthroscopy Are Associated With Higher Rates of Postoperative Infection. Arthroscopy The Journal Of Arthroscopic And Related Surgery 2024, 40: 2381-2385.e1. PMID: 38311263, DOI: 10.1016/j.arthro.2024.01.016.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSurgical-site infectionIntra-articular corticosteroid injectionCorticosteroid injectionPostoperative infectionHip arthroscopyRate of surgical-site infectionPostoperative surgical-site infectionIncidence of postoperative infectionPresence of diabetes mellitusRate of postoperative infectionSurgical-site infection ratesRisk of postoperative infectionRate of wound dehiscenceHip corticosteroid injectionsMultivariate logistic regression analysisHip arthroscopy casesRetrospective comparative studyPreoperative corticosteroid injectionsHip arthroscopy surgeryAdministrative claims databaseLogistic regression analysisInfection rateCurrent Procedural TerminologyElixhauser Comorbidity IndexWound dehiscence
2015
Overall Similar Infection Rates Reported in the Physician-reported Scoliosis Research Society Database and the Chart-abstracted American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Database
Webb ML, Lukasiewicz AM, Samuel AM, Bohl DD, Basques BA, Varthi AG, Grauer JN. Overall Similar Infection Rates Reported in the Physician-reported Scoliosis Research Society Database and the Chart-abstracted American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Database. Spine 2015, 40: 1431-1435. PMID: 26110664, DOI: 10.1097/brs.0000000000001033.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsACS-NSQIP databaseSurgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program databaseNational Surgical Quality Improvement Program databaseQuality Improvement Program databaseImprovement Program databaseInfection rateSRS databasePostoperative infectionProgram databaseAmerican CollegeScoliosis Research Society MorbidityAcute postoperative infectionSurgeon-reported dataPostoperative infection rateRetrospective cohort studyNinth Revision codesSimilar infection ratesDegenerative spondylolithesisCohort studyScheuermann's kyphosisSurgical databaseRevision codesSurgical correctionBACKGROUND DATASurgical cases