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The Bone & Joint Journal
Vol. 100-B, Issue 12 | Pages 1542 - 1550
1 Dec 2018
van den Kieboom J Bosch P J. Plate JD A. IJpma FF Kuehl R McNally MA Metsemakers W M. Govaert GA

Aims

To assess the diagnostic value of C-reactive protein (CRP), leucocyte count (LC), and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) in late fracture-related infection (FRI).

Materials and Methods

PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane databases were searched focusing on the diagnostic value of CRP, LC, and ESR in late FRI. Sensitivity and specificity combinations were extracted for each marker. Average estimates were obtained using bivariate mixed effects models.


The Bone & Joint Journal
Vol. 100-B, Issue 10 | Pages 1270 - 1274
1 Oct 2018
Manta A Opingari E Saleh A Simunovic N Duong A Sprague S Peterson D Bhandari M

Aims

The aims of this systematic review were to describe the quantity and methodological quality of meta-analyses in orthopaedic surgery published during the last 17 years.

Materials and Methods

MEDLINE, EMBASE, and PubMed, between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2016, were searched for meta-analyses in orthopaedic surgery dealing with at least one surgical intervention. Meta-analyses were included if the interventions involved a human muscle, ligament, bone or joint.