Antibiotic utilisation in primary and revision total hip replacement patients: A registry linkage cohort study of 106 253 patients using the Australian Orthopaedic Association National Joint Replacement Registry.
Richard N de SteigerNicole L PrattAarti GulyaniKatherine M DuszynskiMaria C S InacioStephen E GravesPaul N Smithnull nullPublished in: Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety (2022)
Ongoing antibiotic utilisation after primary surgery may be an early signal of problems with the THR and should be a prompt for primary care physicians to refer patients to specialists for further appropriate investigations and management.
Keyphrases
- primary care
- end stage renal disease
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- chronic kidney disease
- peritoneal dialysis
- prognostic factors
- total knee arthroplasty
- minimally invasive
- atrial fibrillation
- human immunodeficiency virus
- quality improvement
- acute coronary syndrome
- coronary artery disease
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- antiretroviral therapy
- surgical site infection