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Pre-Operative And Post-Operative Recommendations To Surgical Wound Care Interventions: A Systematic Meta-Review Of Cochrane Reviews, Brigid M. Gillespie, Rachel M. Walker, Elizabeth Catherine Mcinnes, Zena Moore, Anne Eskes, Tom O'Connor, Emma Harbeck Phd B Psyche (Hons), Codi White, Ian Scott, Hester Vermeulen, Wendy P. Chaboyer
Pre-Operative And Post-Operative Recommendations To Surgical Wound Care Interventions: A Systematic Meta-Review Of Cochrane Reviews, Brigid M. Gillespie, Rachel M. Walker, Elizabeth Catherine Mcinnes, Zena Moore, Anne Eskes, Tom O'Connor, Emma Harbeck Phd B Psyche (Hons), Codi White, Ian Scott, Hester Vermeulen, Wendy P. Chaboyer
Journal of Perioperative Nursing
Background: The increasing numbers of surgeries involving high risk, multimorbid patients, coupled with inconsistencies in the practice of perioperative surgical wound care, increases patients’ risk of surgical site infection and other wound complications.
Objectives: To synthesise and evaluate the recommendations for nursing practice and research from published systematic reviews in the Cochrane Library on nurse-led pre-operative prophylaxis and post-operative surgical wound care interventions used or initiated by nurses.
Design: Meta-review, guided by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines.
Data sources: The Cochrane Library database.
Review methods: All Cochrane Systematic Reviews were eligible. Two reviewers independently …