To identify risk factors for surgical site infections and to quantify the contribution of independent risk factors to the probability of developing infection after definitive fixation of tibial plateau fractures. A retrospective analysis was performed at a Level I trauma center between 2004 and 2010. A total of 251 consecutive patients (256 cases) were divided into two groups, those with and those without a surgical site infection. Preoperative and perioperative variables were compared between these groups and risk factors were determined by univariate analyses and multivariate logistic regression.Objective
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