Prosthetic Joint Infection Trends at a Dedicated Orthopaedics Specialty Hospital

Table 5

Demographic variables at general university versus dedicated orthopaedic hospital for TKA PJIs. Demographic variables, such as BMI, sex, diabetes, whether a resident/fellow was scrubbed, positive history of steroid use, and smoking status were examined at the general university versus dedicated orthopaedics specialty hospitals. NR = not reported. p value was calculated by X² analysis.

	General	Specialty	p value
Sex			0.90
Male	5 (62.5%)	21 (60%)
Female	3 (37.5%)	14 (40%)
Diabetes	3 (37.5%)	5 (14.3%)	0.13
Resident/fellow scrubbed	2 (25.0%)	24 (68.6%)	0.02
Positive history of steroid use	2 (25.0%)	2 (5.7%)	0.09
Smoker			0.04
Never	6 (75.0%)	20 (57.1%)
Former	0 (0.0%)	9 (25.7%)
Current	1 (12.5%)	6 (17.1%)
NR	1 (12.5%)	0 (0.0%)