Prophylactic Topical Antibiotics in Fracture Repair and Spinal Fusion

Figure 1

Literature search flowchart for Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA). Excluded for the following reasons: no patient data, pediatric study, no local antibiotic usage, repeat study, animal study, not accessible, and includes surgeries that are not instrumented spinal fusion or fracture surgeries.