Table 1.

Demographic and clinical factors of patients receiving osteocutaneous flaps.

Factor	Hardware failure (n = 34) Mean (SD)	No hardware failure (n = 179) Mean (SD)	P
Age (years)	56.5 (12.7)	61.1 (14.3)	.08
	Range, 19–80	Range, 18–97
	N (%)	N (%)
Gender
Male	21 (62)	124 (69)	.39
Female	13 (38)	55 (31)
Race
Caucasian	28 (82)	137 (76)	.49
African American	6 (18)	30 (17)
Other	0 (0)	3 (2)
Not recorded	0 (0)	9 (5)
ASA classification
1	6 (17)	22 (12)	.73
2	23 (68)	121 (68)
3	5 (15)	34 (19)
4	0 (0)	2 (1)
Tobacco use preoperative
No	8 (23)	37 (21)	.07
Current tobacco user	22 (65)	82 (46)
Former tobacco user	3 (9)	54 (30)
Not recorded	1 (3)	6 (3)
Tobacco use postoperative
Yes	8 (23)	28 (16)	.03
No	25 (74)	111 (62)
Unknown	2 (3)	40 (22)