Table 2.
Clinical Characteristics of Study Participants
| Parameter | Total, No. (%) |
Connaught Hospital, No. (%) |
Lumley Government Hospital, No. (%) |
Military Hospital, No. (%) |
Makeni Government Hospital, No. (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall total | 753 (100) | 245 (32.5) | 93 (12.34) | 182 (24.2) | 233 (30.9) |
| Type of surgery | |||||
| Nonabdominal | 56 (7.4) | 45 (18.4) | 3 (3.2) | 7 (3.8) | 1 (0.4) |
| Abdominal | 388 (51.5) | 200 (81.6) | 30 (32.3) | 133 (73.1) | 25 (10.7) |
| Obstetric | 309 (41.0) | … | 60 (64.5) | 42 (23.1) | 207 (88.8) |
| Presence of comorbidity | |||||
| No | 635 (84.3) | 181 (73.9) | 68 (73.1) | 158 (86.8) | 228 (97.8) |
| Yes | 118 (15.7) | 64 (26.1) | 25 (26.9) | 24 (13.2) | 5 (2.2) |
| Wound class | |||||
| Clean | 584 (77.6) | 101 (41.2) | 90 (96.8) | 181 (99.4) | 212 (91.0) |
| Clean contaminated | 138 (18.3) | 115 (46.9) | 1 (1.1) | 1 (0.6) | 21 (9.0) |
| Contaminated | 31 (4.1) | 29 (11.8) | 2 (2.1) | … | |
| Preoperative antibiotics | |||||
| No | 263 (34.9) | 194 (79.2) | 54 (58.1) | 4 (2.2) | 11 (4.7) |
| Yes | 490 (65.1) | 51 (20.8) | 39 (41.9) | 178 (97.8) | 222 (95.3) |
| Intraoperative antibiotics | |||||
| No | 504 (67.0) | 104 (42.5) | … | 170 (93.4) | 230 (98.7) |
| Yes | 248 (33.0) | 141 (57.5) | 92 (100) | 12 (6.6) | 3 (1.3) |
| Postoperative antibiotics | |||||
| No | 60 (8.0) | 55 (22.5) | … | 4 (2.2) | 1 (0.4) |
| Yes | 692 (92.0) | 189 (77.5) | 93 (100) | 178 (97.8) | 232 (99.6) |
| Consistency of indication for antibiotic prophylaxis to the local guideline? | |||||
| No | 343 (45.6) | 175 (71.4) | 23 (24.7) | 123 (67.6) | 22 (9.4) |
| Yes | 410 (54.4) | 70 (28.6) | 70 (75.3) | 59 (32.4) | 211 (90.6) |
| Consistency of the type and dose of antibiotic used to the local guidelines? | |||||
| No | 309 (74.8) | 33 (50.8) | 25 (33.8) | 37 (61.7) | 214 (100) |
| Yes | 104 (25.2) | 32 (49.2) | 49 (66.2) | 23 (38.3) | … |
| Total bed days | 5,042 | 2,185 | 471 | 1245 | 1,141 |