Documented β-Lactam Allergy and Risk for Cesarean Surgical Site Infection
Table 2
Surgical site infection characteristics.
Characteristic
No β-lactam allergy
β-lactam allergy
value
(92.83)
(7.17)
Surgical site infection,†
236 (2.0)
38 (4.1)
<0.001
Endometritis
164 (1.4)
25 (2.7)
0.001
Cellulitis‡
13 (0.1)
2 (0.2)
0.293
Sepsis‡
14 (0.1)
3 (0.3)
0.118
Abscess‡
6 (0.05)
3 (0.3)
<0.022
Wound infection
54 (0.4)
12 (1.3)
0.001
0 had pelvic inflammatory disease listed as the indication for readmission. †Some women had more than one subtype of surgical site infection. ‡Fisher’s exact test (other results are chi-square test).