“…Two of the subgroups comparing early and elective groups had a slightly increased risk of infections in the early group (OR 1.33 and 1.11); however, this result was not statistically significant (p = 0.69 and p = 0.80). The other two subgroups showed a statistically significant halving of wound infections in the early group ( [31,32,38,54,67,80,92,95]. 187/817 (22.9 %) patients in the delayed group represented to hospital after successful non-operative management with another acute presentation related to …”