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INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY
Volume 25, Issue 6, Pages 512-514Publisher
SLACK INC
DOI: 10.1086/502431
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OBJECTIVE: To determine whether bacterial cultures of the wounds of patients undergoing clean orthopedic surgery would help predict infection. METHODS: During 1 year, 1,256 cultures were performed for 1,102 patients who underwent clean orthopedic surgery. Results were analyzed to evaluate their ability to predict postoperative infection. RESULTS: The sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value of the cultures were 38%, 92%, 7%, and 99%, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: Cultures performed during clean orthopedic surgery were not useful for predicting postoperative infection (Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2004;25:512-514).
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