Grades of open fracture and outcome variables.

Table 9: Grades of open fracture and outcome variables.

Open Fracture Type		Outcome Variable
	Total cases	Infection	% rate	Mal union	% rate	Non-union	% rate	HW Failure	% rate	2o Amput.	% rate
Open I	500	16	3.2	6	1.2	5	1	4	0.8	0	0
Open II	587	28	4.8	9	1.5	17	2.9	3	0.5	1	0.2
Open IIIA	411	41	1	9	2.2	16	3.9	3	0.7	1	0.2
Open IIIB	182	28	15.4	5	2.7	3	1.6	1	0.5	4	2.2
Open IIIC	78	11	14.1	2	2.6	6	7.7	0	0	4	5.1
Total	1758	124	7.1	31	1.8	47	2.7	11	0.6	3	0.2
χ²		22^*		1.273		8.111		1		13.714
P		0.0002^*		0.866		0.088		0.91		0.008

HW failure = Hardware/Implant failure, Amput = Amputation.

For Clarity of the Tables 7, 8, 9, kindly refer to RESULT 2 attached as Appendix.