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. 2021 Nov 5;14:269–272. doi: 10.17161/kjm.vol14.15506

Table 2.

Incidence of sternal wound infections (SWI) in patients who received gauze surgical dressings before June 2017, and patients who received silver-impregnated surgical dressings after June 2017.

Gauze dressings
Group A, N = 464
Silver dressings
Group B, N = 505
p valuea
n (%)
Total SWI 7 (1.5) 5 (1) 0.57
 Deep 1 (0.4) 1 (0.2) 0.61
 Superficial 6 (1.3) 4 (0.8) 0.74
a

p < 0.05, statistically significant