Reply to "letter to the editor" by Baker and Chen regarding "Effectiveness of local vancomycin powder to decrease surgical site infections: a meta-analysis"

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, 220 Hawkins Drive, General Hospital, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.
² Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, 220 Hawkins Drive, General Hospital, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA; Department of Epidemiology, The University of Iowa College of Public Health, 145 North Riverside Drive, CPHB, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.
³ Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, 220 Hawkins Drive, General Hospital, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA; Department of Epidemiology, The University of Iowa College of Public Health, 145 North Riverside Drive, CPHB, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA; Iowa City Veterans Affairs Health Care System, 601 Hwy 6, West Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.

Comment

Hsiu-Yin Chiang et al. Spine J. 2014.

. 2014 Jul 1;14(7):1367-8.

doi: 10.1016/j.spinee.2014.02.002. Epub 2014 Feb 6.

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, 220 Hawkins Drive, General Hospital, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.
² Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, 220 Hawkins Drive, General Hospital, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA; Department of Epidemiology, The University of Iowa College of Public Health, 145 North Riverside Drive, CPHB, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.
³ Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, 220 Hawkins Drive, General Hospital, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA; Department of Epidemiology, The University of Iowa College of Public Health, 145 North Riverside Drive, CPHB, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA; Iowa City Veterans Affairs Health Care System, 601 Hwy 6, West Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.

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Comment on

Effectiveness of local vancomycin powder to decrease surgical site infections: a meta-analysis.
Chiang HY, Herwaldt LA, Blevins AE, Cho E, Schweizer ML. Chiang HY, et al. Spine J. 2014 Mar 1;14(3):397-407. doi: 10.1016/j.spinee.2013.10.012. Epub 2013 Oct 30. Spine J. 2014. PMID: 24373682
Letter to the editor regarding: "Effectiveness of local vancomycin powder to decrease surgical site infections: a meta-analysis" by Chiang et al.
Baker AW, Chen LF. Baker AW, et al. Spine J. 2014 Jun 1;14(6):1092. doi: 10.1016/j.spinee.2014.01.061. Spine J. 2014. PMID: 24851742 No abstract available.