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Diagnosis and Management of Osteomyelitis Associated With Stage 4 Pressure Ulcers: Report of a Query to the Emerging Infections Network of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
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Diagnosis and Management of Osteomyelitis Associated With Stage 4 Pressure Ulcers: Report of a Query to the Emerging Infections Network of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Anjum S Kaka, Susan E Beekmann, Amy Gravely, Gregory A Filice, Philip M Polgreen and James R Johnson
Open forum infectious diseases, Vol.6(11), pp.ofz406-ofz406
11/01/2019
DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofz406
PMCID: PMC6824522
PMID: 31696138
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https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz406View
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Abstract

Regarding osteomyelitis underlying stage 4 pressure ulcers, 464 infectious diseases physicians in North America reported widely divergent diagnostic and treatment approaches. Most of the reported practice is not supported by the available evidence, which is limited and of low quality. Alternate Corresponding Author: James R. Johnson 1 Veteran’s Drive, 111F, Minneapolis, MN 55417 Phone: 612-467-4449; Fax: 612-725-2273; Email: johns007@umn.edu Figure Format: TIF COI/Funding Statements: Present in MS file .
decubitus Editor's Choice infection Major osteomyelitis pressure ulcer spinal cord injury

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