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  • Orthopaedic trauma
  • Surgical site infection
  • Fracture classification systems

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  • The Orthopaedic Trauma Association-Open Fracture Classification (OTA-OFC) is a comprehensive system for classifying open fractures.
  • Predicting outcomes like surgical site infection and reoperation is crucial for managing open fractures.
  • A simplified version, OTA-OFC3, was proposed to enhance clinical utility.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare the prognostic performance of the simplified OTA-OFC3 with the original OTA-OFC and the Gustilo-Anderson classification.
  • To evaluate the ability of these systems in predicting surgical site infection and unplanned reoperations in open fracture patients.

Main Methods:

  • A retrospective cohort study using data from the PREP-IT trial.
  • Included 3,338 patients with 3,627 open fractures.
  • Compared prognostic performance using area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC).

Main Results:

  • Surgical site infections occurred in 11% and unplanned reoperations in 15% of fractures.
  • OTA-OFC3 performance was not significantly different from Gustilo-Anderson or original OTA-OFC for surgical site infection prediction.
  • OTA-OFC3 was significantly worse than the original OTA-OFC in predicting unplanned reoperations.

Conclusions:

  • Simplifying the OTA-OFC to OTA-OFC3 reduced its predictive ability for unplanned reoperations without improving surgical site infection prediction.
  • The OTA-OFC3 may offer a clinically convenient communication tool but omits prognostic information.
  • Its performance is comparable to the Gustilo-Anderson classification, a widely used system.