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Table 2 Reasons for screening failure (n = 131)

From: MIKROBE: a feasibility study for a randomised controlled trial of one-stage or two-stage surgery for prosthetic knee infection

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Reason for screening failure

Unable or unwilling to undergo either treatment

Lacking capacity to consent to research

Refusal to consent to study (any reason)

Case does not meet the ICM criteria for infection

Re-revision for infection prosthetic knee infection

The presence of tuberculosis infection

‘Other’

(see Table 3)

1

18

2

3

10

20

0

45

2

2

0

3

7

11

1

9

3

0

0

0

1

0

0

1

4

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Total (%)

20 (14.7%)

2 (1.47%)

6 (4.41%)

18 (13.24%)

31 (22.79%)

1 (0.74%)

55 (38.97%)