Skin and soft tissue infection-associated complication and hospitalization rates by diabetes status, major initial clinical diagnosis, and setting from 2005 through 2010.

aDifference in the frequency distribution of SSTI clinical groups between patients with and without diabetes was statistically significant (p<.01) in both those diagnosed in ambulatory settings and those diagnosed in inpatient settings.
bFor patients with an initial diagnosis in the inpatient setting, this counts as a re-hospitalization.