Table 4 Patients categorised according to MSIS working group outcome-reporting tool [17]
From: DAIR for periprosthetic joint infections—One week to save the joint?
Tier 1 | Infection control with no continued antibiotic treatment | 35 |
Tier 2 | Infection control with suppressive antibiotic treatment | 3 |
Tier 3 | Need for reoperation and/or revision and/or spacer | |
• Aseptic revision | 1 | |
• Septic revision | 13 | |
Tier 4 | Death (assigned to subgroups of A or B) | |
A | • Death < 1 year from surgery | 4 |
B | • Death > 1 year from surgery | 8 |
Total | 64 | |