title: Recommendations for reporting treatment of aortic graft infections.
abstract: The purpose of these recommendations is to provide a standard format for reporting treatment results and standardised epidemiologic data after aortic vascular graft infection to improve the comparison of clinical outcomes between different therapeutic approaches and different study populations. Analytical reporting standards for patients' characteristics, type and extent of the disease, type of treatment and study design are described. Adherence to these recommendations will improve clinical relevance, quality and comparability of future studies dealing with aortic vascular graft infections.
authors.affiliation: Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, OE 6210, 30625 Hannover, Germany. Teebken.Omke@MH-Hannover.de
authors.forename: O E
authors.initials: OE
authors.lastname: Teebken
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bisdas
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Assadian
authors.forename: J-B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Ricco
mesh_terms: D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis / Q000382:microbiology*; D002487:Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.; D015897:Comorbidity; D003710:Demography; D018563:Disease Notification / Q000592:standards*; D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D016459:Prosthesis-Related Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology; D012307:Risk Factors; D014481:United States