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Table 4 Patient characteristics and clinical data over five years

From: Reduction of early surgical site and other care related infections in 3553 hip fracture patients: lessons learned from the 5-year Safe Hands project

Variable

1

(n = 442)

Baseline

2

(n = 820)

Intervention

3

(n = 806)

Intervention

4

(n = 773)

Follow-up

5

(n = 712)

Follow-up

p-value

Patient characteristics

 Women (n, %)

312 (70.6%)

547 (66.7%)

551 (68.4%)

540 (69.9%)

490 (68.8%)

0.77

 Age (mean, SD)

83.5 (8.2)

84.5 (65; 101)

n = 442

84.5 (7.8)

85 (65; 102) n = 820

83.8 (8.2)

85 (65; 101)

n = 806

83.8 (8.3)

85 (65; 102)

n = 773

83.6 (8.3)

84 (65; 104)

n = 712

0.19

 ASA classification

      

  I

20 (4.5%)

15 (1.8%)

14 (1.7%)

30 (3.9%)

17 (2.4%)

 

  II

180 (40.7%)

334 (40.8%)

289 (35.9%)

315 (40.9%)

286 (40.5%)

 

  III

211 (47.7%)

410 (50.1%)

448 (55.6%)

382 (49.6%)

355 (50.2%)

 

  IV

31 (7.0%)

60 (7.3%)

55 (6.8%)

43 (5.6%)

49 (6.9%)

0.88

 Diabetes

61 (13.8%)

126 (15.4%)

128 (15.9%)

133 (17.2%)

123 (17.3%)

0.072

 Cognitive failure

125 (28.3%)

267 (32.6%)

352 (43.7%)

315 (40.8%)

258 (36.2%)

0.0005

 Housing

      

  Home

370 (83.7%)

573 (69.9%)

568 (70.5%)

516 (66.8%)

504 (70.8%)

 

  Nursing home

72 (16.3%)

247 (30.1%)

238 (29.5%)

257 (33.2%)

208 (29.2%)

 < .0001

 Intact skin on admission

291 (66.6%)

525 (64.9%)

496 (62.2%)

514 (66.9%)

457 (64.2%)

0.81

Clinical data

 Time to surgery from admission (hours)

      

  < 36

399 (90.3%)

702 (85.7%)

641 (79.5%)

627 (81.1%)

626 (88.0%)

 

  > 36

43 (9.7%)

117 (14.3%)

165 (20.5%)

146 (18.9%)

85 (12.0%)

0.21

 Length of surgery

75.1 (34.3)

72 (9; 226)

n = 442

73.7 (32.4)

70 (13; 208)

n = 820

70.2 (30.4)

69 (9; 248)

n = 805

75.8 (34.3)

74 (11; 222)

n = 773

71.5 (30.0)

69.5 (13; 174)

n = 712

0.71

 Length of hospital stay

14.3 (7.3)

13 (3; 60)

n = 442

13.6 (7.6)

13 (2; 68)

n = 820

12.4 (7.7)

11 (2; 133)

n = 806

10.7 (5.4)

10 (3; 46)

n = 772

9.7 (4.76)

9 (2; 44)

n = 712

 < .0001

 Surgical method

      

  Total arthroplasty

44 (10.0%)

75 (9.1%)

88 (11.1%)

83 (10.8%)

65 (9.1%)

 

  Hemiarthroplasty

134 (30.3%)

274 (33.4%)

247 (31.1%)

244 (31.9%)

218 (30.6%)

 

  Internal fixation

264 (59.7%)

470 (57.3%)

459 (57.8%)

439 (57.3%)

426 (59.8%)

0.74

  Missing

0 (0.0%)

1 (0.1%)

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

3 (0.4%)

 

 In-dwelling UTCa more than once

24 (10.7%)

83 (15.7%)

101 (18.2%)

76 (11.2%)

82 (12.8%)

0.22

  1. For categorical variables, n (%) is presented
  2. For continuous variables, the mean (SD)/median (range)/n = is presented
  3. For comparisons between groups, the Mantel–Haenszel chi square test was used for ordered categorical variables and the Jonckheere-Terpstra test was used for continuous variables
  4. aIn-dwelling Urinary Catheter (UTC)