Brenton P Johns, David C Dewar, Mark R Loewenthal, Laurens A Manning, Amit Atrey, Nipun Atri, David G Campbell, Michael Dunbar, Christopher Kandel, Amir Khoshbin, Christopher W Jones, Jaime Lora-Tamayo, Catherine McDougall, Dirk Jan F Moojen, Jonathan Mulford, David L Paterson, Trisha Peel, Michael Solomon, Simon W Young, Joshua S Davis
Background : Treatment outcomes in studies on prosthetic joint infection are generally assessed using a dichotomous outcome relating to treatment success or failure. These outcome measures neither include patient-centred outcome measures including joint function and quality of life, nor do they account for adverse effects of treatment. A desirability of outcome ranking (DOOR) measure can include these factors and has previously been proposed and validated for other serious infections. We aimed to develop a novel DOOR for prosthetic joint infections (PJIs)...
2022: Journal of Bone and Joint Infection