Table 2.
Comparison of outcomes between rare pathogens and common pathogens groups.
| Variables | Rare Pathogens n=32 |
Common Pathogens n=187 |
P-value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Follow-up period (months) | 40.8±21.2 | 42.5±23.8 | 0.7164 a |
| Treatment | 0.2792 b | ||
| DAIR | 2 | 32 | |
| One-stage revision | 10 | 56 | |
| Two-stage revision | 20 | 99 | |
| Length of hospital stay (days) | 22.2±5.0 | 18.7±5.8 | 0.0013 a |
| Duration of antibiotic use (days) | 151.6±50.4 | 88.3±25.1 | <0.0001 a |
| Antibiotic complications (y/n) | 8/24 | 18/169 | 0.0325 c |
| Reinfection (y/n) | 5/27 | 14/173 | 0.1664 c |
a
Independent-samples t-test.
b
Chi-squared test.
c
Fisher’s exact test.
DAIR, Debridement, antibiotics and implant retention.