Cost of external fixation vs external fixation then nailing in bone infection

Table 1 Comparison between two groups as regard all studied parameters

	Group				P	SIG
	External fixation with nailing		External fixation only
	Mean	± SD	Mean	± SD
Age	27.42	6.42	27.62	6.41	0.9131	NS
Sex
Male (n)	22	91.70%	25	96.2%	0.6022	NS
Female (n )	2	8.3%	1	3.8%
Duration of external fixation	10.63	1.74	26.00	1.52	0.00011	HS
Duration to healing	24.54	0.83	26.00	1.52	0.00011	HS
Size of defect	4.13	0.74	4.04	0.77	0.6881	NS
Hospital cost	26.00	3.18	22.65	3.35	0.0011	HS
Total medical cost	38.30	6.40	63.35	15.08	0.00011	HS
Total absence from work/school	22.71	4.10	38.58	6.59	0.00011	HS

¹Student t test;

²Fisher exact test. Age in years; Duration of external fixation in weeks; Time to bone healing in weeks; Size of bone defect in centimeters; Hospital financial cost calculated in 1000 local currency; Total medical cost calculated in 1000 local currency; Total absence from work in weeks.