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The OVIVA trial: Oral versus intravenous antibiotics for bone and joint infection [Classics Series]

byDeepti Shroff

September 14, 2022

This study summary is an excerpt from the book 2 Minute Medicine's The Classics in Medicine: Summaries of the Landmark ...

Total knee replacement with post-surgical regimen yields greater relief vs nonsurgical treatment alone

Shorter antibiotic therapy for prosthetic joint infection caused worse outcomes

byRicha Sharmaand1 others

June 8, 2021

1. A six-week antibiotic therapy was not shown to be non-inferior to a 12-week antibiotic therapy for patients with confirmed ...

Transthoracic echocardiography can rule out endocarditis in low-risk bacteremic patients

The OVIVA trial: oral antibiotics noninferior to intravenous antibiotics for bone and joint infections

byDayton McMillan

February 1, 2019

1. Patients with bone and joint infections treated with 6 weeks of oral or intravenous antibiotic therapy had similar rates ...

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