Clinical pathways of hospitalized extremity soft-tissue infections: a retrospective study
Jonas Roos, Antonia Krause, Christian Prangenberg, Alberto Alfieri Zellner, Franziska Kappenberg, Matthias Schmid, Kristian Welle, Thorsten Hornung · 2026
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Description
Jonas Roos and seven colleagues charted how hospitalized patients with limb soft-tissue infections move through care. These bacterial infections range from mild skin cases to deep emergencies needing surgery. The team reviewed every inpatient treated at one orthopedic and trauma center from 2020 through 2023. They recorded diagnoses at admission and discharge, lab markers, imaging, germ results, operations, antibiotics, and outcomes.
Two hundred forty-two patients were included, staying a median of about a week. More than half needed surgery, one in ten needed intensive care, and deaths stayed low. The working diagnosis changed between admission and discharge in a third of cases, which shows how hard these infections are to pin down. Hands, lower legs, and feet were the commonest sites. Cultures often grew nothing, and staphylococci led when they did grow. Scan use varied widely, clustering in sicker patients.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jonas Roos, Antonia Krause, Christian Prangenberg, Alberto Alfieri Zellner, Franziska Kappenberg, Matthias Schmid, Kristian Welle, Thorsten Hornung |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 28 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |