Overview of systematic reviews of poor prognostic factors for prosthetic infection. Protocol
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- Sabater-Martos, Marta; Figuls, Mara; Antequera, Alba
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- Orthopedics
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Joint prosthetic infection is one of the most serious complications in prosthetic surgery that entails a high economic cost and health resources. For this reason, it is important to detect those prognostic factors related to the appearance and poor evolution of these infections. Prognostic studies are responsible for analyzing whether there is an association of these factors with prosthetic infection. These studies are increasingly frequent and the first systematic prognostic reviews are appearing, their methodological field presents some knowledge gaps. The objective of this research work is to carry out a review of systematic reviews of poor prognostic factors both for the appearance and for the evolution of joint prosthetic infection, in order to describe the synthesized evidence available on these prognostic factors and to assess the risk of systematic review bias. In addition to assessing the methodological quality with a modified AMSTAR-2 scale.