Length of preoperative hospital stay: a risk factor for reducing surgical infection in femoral fracture cases.

Objective: To analyze infections of the surgical site among patients undergoing clean-wound surgery for correction of femoral fractures.

Methods: This was a historical cohort study developed in a large-sized hospital in Belo Horizonte. Data covering the period from July 2007 to July 2009 were gathered from the records in electronic medical files, relating to the characteristics of the patients, surgical procedures and surgical infections.