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ReviewCureus2025

Strategies to Prevent Surgical Site Infections in Orthopaedic Surgery: A Literature Review.

Abdulrahman Younes, Hani Moosavi, Rebecca E O'Neill

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Review in Cureus, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Distribution of putative SSI risk factors in adults undergoing open reduction and fixation of long bone fracture.European journal of orthopaedic surgery & traumatology : orthopedie traumatologie · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Abdulrahman YounesDepartment of Orthopaedics and Trauma, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, GBR.
Hani MoosaviDepartment of Orthopaedics and Trauma, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, GBR.
Rebecca E O'NeillDepartment of Orthopaedics and Trauma, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, GBR.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Surgical site infections (SSIs) are a significant cause of excess expenditure and increased morbidity and mortality when considered in the context of orthopaedic surgery, with patients often facing prolonged inpatient stays and multiple revision procedures to address this. SSIs, though not completely avoidable, can be mitigated through a variety of pre-operative, intra-operative and post-operative strategies. This literature review aims to offer an oversight of established processes to reduce SSIs, as well as identify other measures with the potential to do this also.

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arthroplastycomplication of treatmentelective orthopaedic surgeryhealthcare-associated infectioninfection ratesorthopaedic implant-related infectionsurgical site infection (ssi)

Identifiers

PMID41556002
PMCPMC12812407

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