Prosthetic Joint Infection Trends at a Dedicated Orthopaedics Specialty Hospital

Table 6

Demographic variables at general university versus dedicated orthopaedic hospital for THA 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			0.30
Male	7 (63.6%)	15 (45.5%)
Female	4 (36.4%)	18 (54.5%)
Diabetes	2 (18.2%)	7 (21.2%)	0.83
Resident/fellow scrubbed	9 (81.8%)	19 (57.6%)	0.15
Positive history of steroid use	0 (0.0%)	1 (3.0%)	0.56
Smoker			0.24
Never	5 (45.4%)	24 (72.7%)
Former	2 (18.2%)	4 (12.1%)
Current	3 (27.3%)	3 (9.0%)
NR	1 (9.1%)	2 (6.0%)