Abstract:[Objective] To compare diagnostic efficacy of three foreign diagnostic criteria for periprosthetic joint infection (PJI), includ-ing the European Bone and Joint Infection Society (EBJIS 2021), the International Consensus Meeting (ICM 2018) and Infectious DiseasesSociety of America (IDSA 2013) in the Chinese population. [Methods] A retrospective study was conducted on 140 patients who receivedtreatment for PJI in The Fourth Medical Center of the PLA General Hospital from January 2017 to November 2019. The data related to PJI di-agnosed respectively according to three foreign diagnostic criteria was collected. The documents of patients who met all three diagnostic crite-ria and those who met part of the diagnostic criteria were compared and analyzed. [Results] Among the 140 patients, 135 patients (96.4%)met the criteria of IDSA2013, 127 patients (90.7%) met the criteria of ICM2018, and 133 patients (95.0%) met the criteria of EBJIS2021,and there was no statistically significant difference in diagnostic efficacy among the three criteria (P>0.05). Of them, 122 cases (87.1%) metall the three diagnostic criteria, whereas 18 cases (12.9%) met one or two of the diagnostic criteria. The patients meeting all the three criteriaproved significantly higher than those meeting ≤2 criteria in terms of local sinus [cases, No/Yes, (79/43) vs (18/0), P=0.002], intraoperativepus [cases, No/Yes, (85/37) vs (17/1), P=0.027], ratio of positive culture in different sites [cases, No/Yes, (38/84) vs (18/0), P<0.001]. In addi-tion, the former had significantly higher CRP [mg/dl, M (P25, P75), 1.95 (0.55, 3.81) vs 0.95 (0.1, 2.58), P=0.030] and the joint fluid leuko-cyte count [cells/μl, M (P25, P75), 11 970 (2 126.5, 24 900) vs 300 (32, 5 498), P=0.021] than the latter. [Conclusion] PJI diagnostic criteriaof EBJIS2021 have similar diagnostic efficacy to those of IDSA2013 and ICM2018. However, the three diagnostic criteria are different in thediagnosis of PJI with mild systemic inflammatory response or local symptoms.