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Editor's Pick: Short or Long Antibiotic Regimens in Orthopedics (New England Journal of Medicine, 2026)

Welcome to This Week in Orthopedics. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning bone and joint infection, perioperative pathways and consensus statements, and a hard look at technology and implant performance, plus a cluster of shoulder and knee papers. Let's dive in. We start with infection, and the headline paper of the week comes from the New England Journal of Medicine.

This week's papers:

Short or Long Antibiotic Regimens in Orthopedics. — New England Journal of Medicine 2026…

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