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The Incidence and Incubation Period of False Positive Cultures in Shoulder Surgery

NCT02602548 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 100

Last updated 2018-08-16

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Summary

This study will describe the time point at which a positive culture from a patient who has undergone shoulder surgery should be treated as an infection versus a false positive result that should be disregarded. Intraoperative biopsies will be taken and cultured from 50 subjects who have undergone an "open" surgical procedure and 50 from subjects undergoing an arthroscopic procedure.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Culture

Specimens will be obtained and sent to the lab for cultures.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Forte Sports Medicine and Orthopedics

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Gary Misamore, MD · Forte Sports Medicine and Orthopedics

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-05-31
Primary Completion
2018-03-31
Completion
2018-03-31

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