Risk of surgical site infection after hip hemiarthroplasty of femoral neck fractures: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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• What: The results of this study demonstrate a substantial SSI risk and a high variability of the infection rates following hemiarthroplasty for hip fracture patients. In 50% of the studies a definition of SSI was used. The review included observational retrospective studies, which are considered lower in the hierarchy of study qualities.
• Who: HIP ARTHROPLASTY and collaborators from the Coreva Scientific GmbH and CoKG, Koenigswinter, Germany have published the research work: geriatric patient. Such traumas often lead to hip fractures (HF) as a consequence of poor bone quality and severe osteoporosis. The global number of . . .
  

   

  

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