Preoperative bacteriuria positivity on urinalysis increases wound complications in primary total hip arthroplasty regardless of the urine culture result

Table 4 Complication rate of the two groups in three months postoperatively

Variable	Bacteriuria-positive (n = 95)	Bacteriuria-negative (n = 868)	P Value
Superficial wound infection^a	4(4.2%)	5(0.6%)	0.008
Wound leakage^a	11(11.6%)	39(4.5%)	0.007
PJI^a	0(0.0%)	0(0.0%)	N/A
Pulmonary infection^a	1(1.1%)	10(1.2%)	1.000
UTI^a	0(0.0%)	0(0.0%)	N/A
Any readmission^a	5(5.3%)	11(1.3%)	0.015
Length of stay (days)^b	6.19 ± 2.89	5.58 ± 2.14	0.011

Prosthetic Joint Infection, PJI; Urinary tract infection, UTI; N/A, Not Applicable
^a Compared with the Chi-square test (or Fisher exact test)
^b Compared with Student’s independent-samples t-test

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