Patients and physicians have different views about what constitutes a sinus infection, which could result in communication issues and misdiagnoses, new research suggests. A team led by researchers at ...

Postoperative spine infection : the dreaded complication that seems to come with a variety of definitions — is it redness? drainage? or that one culture result you’re not quite sure you trust?.

Consensus criteria for postoperative spine infection unite wound, imaging, biomarkers, histology, and microbiology, including a pathognomonic culture rule, enabling more consistent diagnosis and ...

An international task force has come up with a new definition of sepsis that could cut the infection risk. The task force, led by doctors at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the ...

Results from the Musculoskeletal Infection Society Annual Meeting showed the 2018 International Consensus Meeting definition for periprosthetic joint infection had poor accuracy in identifying ...

A lack of consensus for the term “immunocompromised” suggests that studies demonstrating the effectiveness of infection prevention in surgical patients at a high risk of wound infection may have ...

A panel of experts convened by the National Institutes of Health has recommended standardized criteria to define infection of the placenta with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The panel ...

Researchers suggested that diabetic foot osteomyelitis — which results in worse outcomes compared with soft tissue infections — should be separated into its own category in the Infectious Diseases ...