Table 3 The 100 most cited articles on spinal SSI
From: Surgical site infection in spinal surgery: a bibliometric analysis
Rank | First author | Title | Journal | Citations | Year | Citations per year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Olsen, MA | Risk factors for surgical site infection following orthopedic spinal operations | Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery-American Volume | 507 | 2008 | 33.8 |
2 | ter Gunne, AFP | Incidence, Prevalence, and Analysis of Risk Factors for Surgical Site Infection Following Adult Spinal Surgery | Spine | 315 | 2009 | 22.5 |
3 | O'Neill, KR | Reduced surgical site infections in patients undergoing posterior spinal stabilization of traumatic injuries using vancomycin powder | Spine Journal | 201 | 2011 | 16.8 |
4 | O'Toole, JE | Surgical site infection rates after minimally invasive spinal surgery clinical article | Journal of Neurosurgery-Spine | 184 | 2009 | 13.1 |
5 | Schimmel, JJP | Risk factors for deep surgical site infections after spinal fusion | European Spine Journal | 169 | 2010 | 13.0 |
6 | Vitale, MG | Building Consensus: Development of a Best Practice Guideline (BPG) for Surgical Site Infection (SSI) Prevention in High-risk Pediatric Spine Surgery | Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics | 135 | 2013 | 13.5 |
7 | Rao, SB | Risk Factors for Surgical Site Infections Following Spinal Fusion Procedures: A Case–Control Study | Clinical Infectious Diseases | 113 | 2011 | 9.4 |
8 | McGirt, MJ | Comparative analysis of perioperative surgical site infection after minimally invasive versus open posterior/transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion: analysis of hospital billing and discharge data from 5170 patients Clinical article | Journal of Neurosurgery-Spine | 111 | 2011 | 9.3 |
9 | Hedequist, D | Failure of Attempted Implant Retention in Spinal Deformity Delayed Surgical Site Infections | Spine | 109 | 2009 | 7.8 |
10 | Caroom, C | Intrawound Vancomycin Powder Reduces Surgical Site Infections in Posterior Cervical Fusion | Spine | 105 | 2013 | 10.5 |
11 | Linam, WM | Risk Factors Associated With Surgical Site Infection After Pediatric Posterior Spinal Fusion Procedure | Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | 104 | 2009 | 7.4 |
12 | Mackenzie, WGS | Surgical Site Infection Following Spinal Instrumentation for Scoliosis | Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery-American Volume | 102 | 2013 | 10.2 |
13 | Kang, DG | Intrasite vancomycin powder for the prevention of surgical site infection in spine surgery: a systematic literature review | Spine Journal | 98 | 2015 | 12.3 |
14 | ter Gunne, AFP | The Presentation, Incidence, Etiology, and Treatment of Surgical Site Infections After Spinal Surgery | Spine | 98 | 2010 | 7.5 |
15 | Abdul-Jabbar, A | Surgical Site Infection in Spinal Surgery Description of Surgical and Patient-Based Risk Factors for Postoperative Infection Using Administrative Claims Data | Spine | 97 | 2012 | 8.8 |
16 | Anderson, PA | Prevention of Surgical Site Infection in Spine Surgery | Neurosurgery | 96 | 2017 | 16.0 |
17 | Glotzbecker, MP | What's the Evidence? Systematic Literature Review of Risk Factors and Preventive Strategies for Surgical Site Infection Following Pediatric Spine Surgery | Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics | 96 | 2013 | 9.6 |
18 | Abdul-Jabbar, A | Surgical Site Infections in Spine Surgery Identification of Microbiologic and Surgical Characteristics in 239 Cases | Spine | 94 | 2013 | 9.4 |
19 | Xing, D | A methodological, systematic review of evidence-based independent risk factors for surgical site infections after spinal surgery | European Spine Journal | 93 | 2013 | 9.3 |
20 | Sebastian, A | Risk factors for surgical site infection after posterior cervical spine surgery: an analysis of 5,441 patients from the ACS NSQIP 2005–2012 | Spine Journal | 92 | 2016 | 13.1 |
21 | Khan, NR | A meta-analysis of spinal surgical site infection and vancomycin powder | Journal of Neurosurgery-Spine | 91 | 2014 | 10.1 |
22 | Cizik, AM | Using the Spine Surgical Invasiveness Index to Identify Risk of Surgical Site Infection a Multivariate Analysis | Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery-American Volume | 90 | 2012 | 8.2 |
23 | Watanabe, M | Risk factors for surgical site infection following spine surgery: efficacy of intraoperative saline irrigation Clinical article | Journal of Neurosurgery-Spine | 88 | 2010 | 6.8 |
24 | Hikata, T | High preoperative hemoglobin A1c is a risk factor for surgical site infection after posterior thoracic and lumbar spinal instrumentation surgery | Journal of Orthopaedic Science | 85 | 2014 | 9.4 |
25 | ter Gunne, AFP | Incidence of surgical site infection following adult spinal deformity surgery: an analysis of patient risk | European Spine Journal | 83 | 2010 | 6.4 |
26 | Maragakis, LL | Intraoperative Fraction of Inspired Oxygen Is a Modifiable Risk Factor for Surgical Site Infection after Spinal Surgery | Anesthesiology | 81 | 2009 | 5.8 |
27 | Chen, S | Diabetes Associated with Increased Surgical Site Infections in Spinal Arthrodesis | Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research | 78 | 2009 | 5.6 |
28 | ter Gunne, AFP | A Methodological Systematic Review on Surgical Site Infections Following Spinal Surgery Part 1: Risk Factors | Spine | 77 | 2012 | 7.0 |
29 | Maruo, K | Outcome and treatment of postoperative spine surgical site infections: predictors of treatment success and failure | Journal of Orthopaedic Science | 71 | 2014 | 7.9 |
30 | Schwarzkopf, R | Effects of Perioperative Blood Product Use on Surgical Site Infection Following Thoracic and Lumbar Spinal Surgery | Spine | 69 | 2010 | 5.3 |
31 | Hey, HWD | Is Intraoperative Local Vancomycin Powder the Answer to Surgical Site Infections in Spine Surgery? | Spine | 68 | 2017 | 11.3 |
32 | Ramo, BA | Surgical Site Infections After Posterior Spinal Fusion for Neuromuscular Scoliosis | Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery-American Volume | 68 | 2014 | 7.6 |
33 | Abdallah, DY | Body mass index and risk of surgical site infection following spine surgery: a meta-analysis | European Spine Journal | 68 | 2013 | 6.8 |
34 | Omeis, IA | Postoperative Surgical Site Infections in Patients Undergoing Spinal Tumor Surgery Incidence and Risk Factors | Spine | 68 | 2011 | 5.7 |
35 | Fei, Q | Risk Factors for Surgical Site Infection After Spinal Surgery: A Meta-Analysis | World Neurosurgery | 66 | 2016 | 9.4 |
36 | Demura, S | Surgical Site Infection in Spinal Metastasis Risk Factors and Countermeasures | Spine | 66 | 2009 | 4.7 |
37 | Milstone, AM | Timing of preoperative antibiotic prophylaxis—A modifiable risk factor for deep surgical site infections after pediatric spinal fusion | Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal | 64 | 2008 | 4.3 |
38 | Meng, F | Risk factors for surgical site infections following spinal surgery | Journal of Clinical Neuroscience | 61 | 2015 | 7.6 |
39 | Tomov, M | Reducing Surgical Site Infection in Spinal Surgery With Betadine Irrigation and Intrawound Vancomycin Powder | Spine | 60 | 2015 | 7.5 |
40 | Zhou, JM | Incidence of Surgical Site Infection After Spine Surgery A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis | Spine | 59 | 2020 | 19.7 |
41 | Radcliff, KE | What is new in the diagnosis and prevention of spine surgical site infections | Spine Journal | 59 | 2015 | 7.4 |
42 | Yao, R | Surgical Site Infection in Spine Surgery: Who Is at Risk? | Global Spine Journal | 55 | 2018 | 11.0 |
43 | Nota, SPFT | Incidence of Surgical Site Infection After Spine Surgery: What Is the Impact of the Definition of Infection? | Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research | 53 | 2015 | 6.6 |
44 | Lee, MJ | Predicting surgical site infection after spine surgery: a validated model using a prospective surgical registry | Spine Journal | 52 | 2014 | 5.8 |
45 | Liu, JM | Risk Factors for Surgical Site Infection After Posterior Lumbar Spinal Surgery | Spine | 51 | 2018 | 10.2 |
46 | Patel, H | Burden of Surgical Site Infections Associated with Select Spine Operations and Involvement of Staphylococcus aureus | Surgical Infections | 48 | 2017 | 8.0 |
47 | Klemencsics, I | Risk factors for surgical site infection in elective routine degenerative lumbar surgeries | Spine Journal | 48 | 2016 | 6.9 |
48 | Heller, A | Intrawound Vancomycin Powder Decreases Staphylococcal Surgical Site Infections After Posterior Instrumented Spinal Arthrodesis | Journal of Spinal Disorders and Techniques | 48 | 2015 | 6.0 |
49 | Kang, BU | Surgical site infection in spinal surgery: detection and management based on serial C-reactive protein measurements Clinical article | Journal of Neurosurgery-Spine | 47 | 2010 | 3.6 |
50 | Manoso, MW | Medicaid Status Is Associated With Higher Surgical Site Infection Rates After Spine Surgery | Spine | 45 | 2014 | 5.0 |
51 | Ee, WWG | Does Minimally Invasive Surgery Have a Lower Risk of Surgical Site Infections Compared With Open Spinal Surgery? | Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research | 45 | 2014 | 5.0 |
52 | Blumberg, TJ | Predictors of increased cost and length of stay in the treatment of postoperative spine surgical site infection | Spine Journal | 41 | 2018 | 8.2 |
53 | DiPaola, CP | Postoperative Infection Treatment Score for the Spine (PITSS): construction and validation of a predictive model to define need for single versus multiple irrigation and debridement for spinal surgical site infection | Spine Journal | 40 | 2012 | 3.6 |
54 | Croft, LD | Risk Factors for Surgical Site Infections After Pediatric Spine Operations | Spine | 37 | 2015 | 4.6 |
55 | Ogihara, S | Prospective multicenter surveillance and risk factor analysis of deep surgical site infection after posterior thoracic and/or lumbar spinal surgery in adults | Journal of Orthopaedic Science | 37 | 2015 | 4.6 |
56 | Satake, K | Predisposing factors for surgical site infection of spinal instrumentation surgery for diabetes patients | European Spine Journal | 34 | 2013 | 3.4 |
57 | Lonjon, G | Early surgical site infections in adult spinal trauma: A prospective, multicentre study of infection rates and risk factors | Orthopaedics and Traumatology-Surgery and Research | 34 | 2012 | 3.1 |
58 | Atkinson, RA | Management and cost of surgical site infection in patients undergoing surgery for spinal metastasis | Journal of Hospital Infection | 32 | 2017 | 5.3 |
59 | Thakkar, V | Nasal MRSA colonization: Impact on surgical site infection following spine surgery | Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery | 32 | 2014 | 3.6 |
60 | Ando, M | Surgical site infection in spinal surgery: a comparative study between 2-octyl-cyanoacrylate and staples for wound closure | European Spine Journal | 32 | 2014 | 3.6 |
61 | Pesenti, S | What are the risk factors for surgical site infection after spinal fusion? A meta-analysis | European Spine Journal | 31 | 2018 | 6.2 |
62 | Tempel, Z | Prealbumin as a Serum Biomarker of Impaired Perioperative Nutritional Status and Risk for Surgical Site Infection after Spine Surgery | Journal of Neurological Surgery Part A-Central European Neurosurgery | 31 | 2015 | 3.9 |
63 | Horii, C | Does intrawound vancomycin powder reduce surgical site infection after posterior instrumented spinal surgery? A propensity score-matched analysis | Spine Journal | 30 | 2018 | 6.0 |
64 | Devin, CJ | Intrawound Vancomycin Decreases the Risk of Surgical Site Infection After Posterior Spine Surgery: A Multicenter Analysis | Spine | 30 | 2018 | 6.0 |
65 | Kong, LD | Smoking and Risk of Surgical Site Infection after Spinal Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis | Surgical Infections | 30 | 2017 | 5.0 |
66 | Dubory, A | Surgical site infection in spinal injury: incidence and risk factors in a prospective cohort of 518 patients | European Spine Journal | 29 | 2015 | 3.6 |
67 | Thompson, GH | Does Vancomycin Powder Decrease Surgical Site Infections in Growing Spine Surgery? A Preliminary Study | Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery-American Volume | 28 | 2018 | 5.6 |
68 | Nunez-Pereira, S | Postoperative urinary tract infection and surgical site infection in instrumented spinal surgery: is there a link? | Clinical Microbiology and Infection | 28 | 2014 | 3.1 |
69 | Boston, KM | Risk Factors for Spinal Surgical Site Infection, Houston, Texas | Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | 28 | 2009 | 2.0 |
70 | Deng, H | Risk factors for deep surgical site infection following thoracolumbar spinal surgery | Journal of Neurosurgery-Spine | 27 | 2020 | 9.0 |
71 | Wang, T | Factors predicting surgical site infection after posterior lumbar surgery A multicenter retrospective study | Medicine | 26 | 2017 | 4.3 |
72 | Nunez-Pereira, S | Individualized antibiotic prophylaxis reduces surgical site infections by gram-negative bacteria in instrumented spinal surgery | European Spine Journal | 25 | 2011 | 2.1 |
73 | Yin, D | Management of late-onset deep surgical site infection after instrumented spinal surgery | Bmc Surgery | 24 | 2018 | 4.8 |
74 | Lewkonia, P | Incidence and risk of delayed surgical site infection following instrumented lumbar spine fusion | Journal of Clinical Neuroscience | 24 | 2016 | 3.4 |
75 | Inanami, H | Role of F-18-Fluoro-D-deoxyglucose PET/CT in Diagnosing Surgical Site Infection After Spine Surgery With Instrumentation | Spine | 24 | 2015 | 3.0 |
76 | Sebaaly, A | Surgical site infection in spinal metastasis: incidence and risk factors | Spine Journal | 23 | 2018 | 4.6 |
77 | Tominaga, H | Risk factors for surgical site infection and urinary tract infection after spine surgery | European Spine Journal | 23 | 2016 | 3.3 |
78 | van Middendorp, JJ | A Methodological Systematic Review on Surgical Site Infections Following Spinal Surgery Part 2: Prophylactic Treatments | Spine | 23 | 2012 | 2.1 |
79 | Peng, XQ | Risk Factors for Surgical Site Infection After Spinal Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Based on Twenty-Seven Studies | World Neurosurgery | 22 | 2019 | 5.5 |
80 | Salvetti, DJ | Low preoperative serum prealbumin levels and the postoperative surgical site infection risk in elective spine surgery: a consecutive series | Journal of Neurosurgery-Spine | 22 | 2018 | 4.4 |
81 | Yao, RN | Prophylaxis of surgical site infection in adult spine surgery: A systematic review | Journal of Clinical Neuroscience | 22 | 2018 | 4.4 |
82 | Lai, Q | Risk factors for acute surgical site infections after lumbar surgery: a retrospective study | Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research | 21 | 2017 | 3.5 |
83 | Tsantes, AG | Association of malnutrition with surgical site infection following spinal surgery: systematic review and meta-analysis | Journal of Hospital Infection | 20 | 2020 | 6.7 |
84 | Tsubouchi, N | Risk factors for implant removal after spinal surgical site infection | European Spine Journal | 20 | 2018 | 4.0 |
85 | Haimoto, S | Reduction in surgical site infection with suprafascial intrawound application of vancomycin powder in instrumented posterior spinal fusion: a retrospective case–control study | Journal of Neurosurgery-Spine | 20 | 2018 | 4.0 |
86 | Van Hal, M | Vancomycin Powder Regimen for Prevention of Surgical Site Infection in Complex Spine Surgeries | Clinical Spine Surgery | 20 | 2017 | 3.3 |
87 | Ahn, DK | The Difference of Surgical Site Infection According to the Methods of Lumbar Fusion Surgery | Journal of Spinal Disorders and Techniques | 20 | 2012 | 1.8 |
88 | Tan, T | Prophylactic postoperative measures to minimize surgical site infections in spine surgery: systematic review and evidence summary | Spine Journal | 19 | 2020 | 6.3 |
89 | Lemans, JVC | Intrawound Treatment for Prevention of Surgical Site Infections in Instrumented Spinal Surgery: A Systematic Comparative Effectiveness Review and Meta-Analysis | Global Spine Journal | 19 | 2019 | 4.8 |
90 | Spina, NT | Surgical Site Infections in Spine Surgery: Preoperative Prevention Strategies to Minimize Risk | Global Spine Journal | 19 | 2018 | 3.8 |
91 | Jalai, CM | Surgical site infections following operative management of cervical spondylotic myelopathy: prevalence, predictors of occurrence, and influence on perioperative outcomes | European Spine Journal | 19 | 2016 | 2.7 |
92 | Floccari, LV | Surgical Site Infections After Pediatric Spine Surgery | Orthopedic Clinics of North America | 19 | 2016 | 2.7 |
93 | ter Gunne, AFP | Surgical site infection after osteotomy of the adult spine: does type of osteotomy matter? | Spine Journal | 19 | 2010 | 1.5 |
94 | Agarwal, A | Implant Retention or Removal for Management of Surgical Site Infection After Spinal Surgery | Global Spine Journal | 18 | 2020 | 6.0 |
95 | Yamada, K | Evidence-based Care Bundles for Preventing Surgical Site Infections in Spinal Instrumentation Surgery | Spine | 18 | 2018 | 3.6 |
96 | Warner, SJ | Epidemiology of Deep Surgical Site Infections After Pediatric Spinal Fusion Surgery | Spine | 18 | 2017 | 3.0 |
97 | Haleem, A | Risk Factors for Surgical Site Infections Following Adult Spine Operations | Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | 18 | 2016 | 2.6 |
98 | Ojo, OA | Surgical site infection in posterior spine surgery | Nigerian Journal of Clinical Practice | 18 | 2016 | 2.6 |
99 | Tofuku, K | The use of antibiotic-impregnated fibrin sealant for the prevention of surgical site infection associated with spinal instrumentation | European Spine Journal | 18 | 2012 | 1.6 |
100 | Chikawa, T | Retrospective study of deep surgical site infections following spinal surgery and the effectiveness of continuous irrigation | British Journal of Neurosurgery | 18 | 2011 | 1.5 |