We read with interest the article by Qin et al,
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which described 5,046 patients with base-of-thumb osteoarthritis identified in the
Humana database using the PearlDiver platform. We noted several similarities, yet
striking differences, related to our two 19-year longitudinal cohorts of individual
patient data within the National Health Service, accounting for all secondary care,
publicly remunerated activities in England.
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- Risk of infection in thumb carpometacarpal surgery after corticosteroid injection.J Hand Surg Am. 2021; 46: 765-771
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Dr Lane received support from Versus Arthritis (21605) and the Medical Research Council (MR/K501256/1). Professor Furniss received support from National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford.
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- Reply to “Letter Regarding ‘Risk of Infection in Thumb Carpometacarpal Surgery After Corticosteroid Injection’”Journal of Hand SurgeryVol. 47Issue 4
- PreviewWe thank Patel et al1 for the excellent points raised by them and appreciate the opportunity to respond. It is indeed interesting that although their work found that a preoperative corticosteroid injection is associated with a greater risk of a serious surgical site infection after surgery, the absolute proportion of surgical site infections was several orders of magnitude lower than that in our study. This difference could be attributed to differences in coding. All large national databases are subject to imprecisions in coding, including the database used in our study.
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