Consensus document for the diagnosis of prosthetic joint infections: a joint paper by the EANM, EBJIS, and ESR (with ESCMID endorsement)

• DOI: 10.1007/s00259-019-4263-9
• Publication Date: 2019-01-26T03:02:24Z
• Authors: Alberto Signore; Luca Maria Sconfi...; Olivier Borens; Andor W. J. M. Gl...; Victor Cassar-Pul...; Andrej Trampuz; Heinz Winkler; Olivier Gheysens; Filip M. H. M. Va...; Nicola Petrosillo; Paul C. Jutte
• Keywords: Flow chart

For the diagnosis of prosthetic joint infection, real evidence-based guidelines to aid clinicians in choosing most accurate diagnostic strategy are lacking. To address this need, we performed a multidisciplinary systematic review relevant nuclear medicine, radiological, orthopaedic, infectious, and microbiological literature define accuracy each technique provide answers on uniform statements for topic that was found be important develop commonly agreed upon flowchart. The approach used prepare set interest follow procedure indicated by Oxford Centre Evidence-based Medicine (OCEBM).