Increasing Resistance of Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci in Total Hip Arthroplasty Infections: 278 THA-Revisions due to Infection Reported to the Norwegian Arthroplasty Register from 1993 to 2007

Table 1

Patient characteristics.

Variable
Sex (%)
Male	32,4
Female	67,6
Age (mean) (SD)	69,4 (10,9)
Diagnosis (%)
Osteoarthritis	67,3
Inflammatory	4,0
Other	28,7
Antibiotic prophylaxis systemically (%)
Yes	98,4
No	1,6
Method of fixation (%)
Uncemented	11,1
Cement
With antibiotics	72,2
Without antibiotics	16,7