Defining the volume of consultations for musculoskeletal infection encountered by pediatric orthopaedic services in the United States.

OBJECTIVE:Adequate resources are required to rapidly diagnose and treat pediatric musculoskeletal infection (MSKI). The workload MSKI consults contribute to pediatric orthopaedic services is unknown as prior epidemiologic studies are variable and negative work-ups are not included in national discha...

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Main Authors: Ryan J Koehler, Benjamin J Shore, Daniel Hedequest, Benton E Heyworth, Colin May, Patricia E Miller, Emily S Rademacher, Ryan M Sanborn, Joshua S Murphy, Alyssa Roseman, Jason W Stoneback, Anastasiya A Trizno, Rachel Y Goldstein, Liam Harris, Ena Nielsen, Divya Talwar, Jaime R Denning, Noor Saaed, Brooke Kutz, Jennifer C Laine, Mary Naas, Walter H Truong, Matthew Rotando, David D Spence, Brian K Brighton, Christine Churchill, Joseph A Janicki, Kiana King, Jacob Wild, Allan C Beebe, Schon Crouse, Teaya Rough, Mallory Rowan, Satbir Singh, Amanda Davis-Juarez, Adam Gould, Olivia Hughes, Kathleen D Rickert, Vidyadhar V Upasani, Todd J Blumberg, Viviana Bompadre, Antoinette W Lindberg, Mark L Miller, Jaclyn F Hill, Hayley Peoples, Scott B Rosenfeld, Rod Turner, Lawson A Copley, Eduardo A Lindsay, Brandon A Ramo, Naureen Tareen, R. Lane Winberly, G. Ying Li, Jordyn Sessel, Megan E Johnson, Samuel Johnson, Stephanie N Moore-Lotridge, Julie Shelton, Keith D Baldwin, Jonathan G Schoenecker, Children’s Orthopaedic Trauma and Infection Consortium for Evidence Based Study (CORTICES) Group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0234055