A short, 7-day course of systemic antibiotics works as well as a 4-week course among patients with orthopedic infections who receive local antibiotics during surgery.

Short-course systemic corticosteroids in children and adolescents are associated with increased risk for hyperglycemia and sleep problems, with moderate certainty evidence showing 38 more cases of ...

Postoperative antibiotic treatment for orthopedic infections typically last 4 weeks, but a randomized trial found less treatment failure in those who received 7 days or less.