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dc.contributor.authorWalker, Rachel M
dc.contributor.authorGillespie, Brigid M
dc.contributor.authorThalib, Lukman
dc.contributor.authorHiggins, Niall S
dc.contributor.authorWhitty, Jennifer A
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-29T13:15:30Z
dc.date.available2019-05-29T13:15:30Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.issn0020-7489
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2018.07.012
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/381944
dc.description.abstractBackground: Pressure injuries are localised areas of injury to the skin and/or underlying tissues. Objectives To assess foam dressings compared to other dressings in healing pressure injuries. Design Systematic review and meta-analysis Data sources The review team searched: the Cochrane Wounds Specialised Register; the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials; Ovid MEDLINE; Ovid Embase; EBSCO CINAHL Plus and the NHS Economic Evaluation Database. Authors also searched clinical trials registries and scanned reference lists for reviews, meta-analyses and health technology reports. No restrictions were applied to language, publication date or study setting. Study eligibility criteria Published or unpublished randomised controlled trials and cluster- randomised controlled trials that examined the clinical or cost effectiveness of foam dressings for healing pressure injuries. Participants Patients of any age with a pressure injury of Stage II or above in any care setting. Interventions Use of any foam wound dressing for treating Stage II pressure injuries or above. Study appraisal and synthesis methods Full-text were assessed for eligibility using a priori criteria by two authors. Risk of bias was assessed using the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluation criteria, and Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards. Risk ratio and mean difference with 95% confidence intervals were used to measure the effect. The review team used Review Manager 5 to enter narrative and qualitative data of included studies. Results: Authors found nine studies published between 1994 and 2016 involving 483 participants with pressure injuries at Stage II or above. Included studies compared foam dressings with other types of dressings. However, it was unclear if the foam dressing affected healing (RR 1.00, 95% CI 0.78–1.28), time to complete healing (MD 5.67 days 95% CI-4.03–15.37), adverse events (RR 0.33, 95% CI 0.01–7.65), or reduction in pressure injury size (MD 0.30 cm2 per day, 95% CI −0.15 to 0.75), as the certainty of the evidence was very low. Limitations: Using the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluation criteria, the certainty and completeness of evidence was low to very low, making it difficult to draw comparisons between foam and other dressings. Conclusions and implications: It is uncertain whether foam dressings are more clinically effective, more acceptable to users, or more cost effective compared to alternative dressings in treating pressure injuries.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom140
dc.relation.ispartofpageto147
dc.relation.ispartofjournalInternational Journal of Nursing Studies
dc.relation.ispartofvolume87
dc.subject.fieldofresearchNursing
dc.subject.fieldofresearchNursing not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchMidwifery
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4205
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode420599
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4204
dc.titleFoam dressings for treating pressure injuries in patients of any age in any care setting: An abridged Cochrane systematic review
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
dc.description.versionAccepted Manuscript (AM)
gro.facultyGriffith Health, School of Nursing and Midwifery
gro.rights.copyright© 2018 Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.
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gro.griffith.authorWalker, Rachel M.
gro.griffith.authorGillespie, Brigid M.


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