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. 2019 Jan 24;43(9):2009–2016. doi: 10.1007/s00264-019-04298-x

Table 2.

Characteristics of patients, operations and SSIs

Risk factors HPRO KPRO OPRO OMS
SSI SSI SSI SSI
No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes
n = 552 n = 32 n = 2961 n = 14 n = 342 n = 18 n = 2961 n = 228
Duration of operation (min)
 Mean 140 155 110 120 60 65 120 125
 SD 42 43 36 36 16 16 38 38
 p value 0.0503 0.3123 0.1971 0.0556
 P75 (min) 160 130 94 135
Age (years)
 Mean 67.0 69.1 66.8 69.0 49.8 46.7 47.9 62.0
 SD 18 18 18 18 16 16 16 18
 p value 0.5215 0.6564 0.4235 < 00001
The duration of the pre-hospitalisation (days)
 Mean 6 6 6 6 4 4 3 4
 SD 7 7 7 7 6 6 4 4
 p value 1.0000 1.0000 1.0000 0.0003
Gender (%)
 Male 55.3 53.1 58.1 57.1 51.5 55.6 70.6 64.5
 Female 44.7 46.9 41.9 42.9 48.5 44.4 29.4 35.5
 p value 0.8139 0.9413 0.7348 0.0520
 OR (95%CI) 0.8 (0.57–1.19) 0.07 (0.04–0.11) 0.7 (0.5–1.2) 1.1 (0.9–1.3)
Cleanliness of the surgical site (%)
 Clean, clean-contaminated 99.8 100.0 99.6 100.0 99.7 100.0 93.0 82.0
 Contaminated, dirty 0.2 0.0 0.4 0.0 0.3 0.0 7.0 18.0
 p value 0.8096 0.8155 0.8183 < 0.0001
 OR (95%CI) 1.0 (0.61–1.66) 1.00 (0.48–2.11) 1.00 (0.51–1.96) 0.88 (0.72–1.1)
State of the patient in the ASA scale (%)
 1 or 2 67.6 53.1 69.8 42.9 76.9 72.2 83.0 86.0
 3 or 4 or 5 32.4 46.9 30.2 57.1 23.1 27.8 17.0 14.0
 p value 0.0916 0.0349 0.6474 0.2503
 OR (95%CI) 0.8 (0.9–3.8) 3.0 (1.1–8.9) 1.3 (0.4–3.7) 0.8 (0.5–1.2)
Incidence rate (%) 5.8 5.4 5.3 7.7
Clinical form of the SSI, n (%)
 Superficial 16 (50.0) 12 (85.7) 15 (83.3) 97 (42.5)
 Deep 14 (43.8) 2 (14.3) 3 (16.7) 125 (54.8)
 Organ/space 2 (6.3) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 6 (2.6)
Time of detection of SSI, n (%)
 During hospital stay 7 (21.9) 4 (28.6) 4 (22.2) 139 (61.0)
 Post-disleftge 12 (37.5) 7 (50.0) 14 (77.8) 49 (21.5)
 Re-hospitalisation 13 (40.6) 3 (21.4) 0 (0.0) 40 (17.5)

ASA the American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status classification, HPRO hip endoarthroplasty, KPRO knee endoarthroplasty, OMS other musculoskeletal, OPRO other prostheses, OR (95%CI) odds ratio and 95% confidence interval, P75 75th percentile of duration of operation, SD standard deviation, SSI surgical site infections