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).