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Wound‐care teams for preventing and treating pressure ulcers

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, September 2015
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Title
Wound‐care teams for preventing and treating pressure ulcers
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Cochrane database of systematic reviews, September 2015
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd011011.pub2
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Zena EH Moore, Joan Webster, Ray Samuriwo

Abstract

Pressure ulcers, which are localised injury to the skin or underlying tissue, or both, occur when people are unable to reposition themselves to relieve pressure on bony prominences. Pressure ulcers are often difficult to heal, painful and impact negatively on the individual's quality of life. The cost implications of pressure ulcer treatment are considerable, compounding the challenges in providing cost effective, efficient health service delivery. International guidelines suggest that to prevent and manage pressure ulcers successfully a team approach is required. Therefore, this review has been conducted to clarify the role of wound-care teams in the prevention and management of pressure ulcers. To assess the impact of wound-care teams in preventing and treating pressure ulcers in people of any age, nursed in any healthcare setting. In April 2015 we searched: The Cochrane Wounds Group Specialised Register; The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) (The Cochrane Library); Ovid MEDLINE; Ovid MEDLINE (In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations); Ovid EMBASE and EBSCO CINAHL. There were no restrictions with respect to language, date of publication or study setting. We considered RCTs that evaluated the effect of any configuration of wound-care teams in the treatment or prevention of pressure ulcers. Two review authors independently assessed titles and, where available, abstracts of the studies identified by the search strategy for their eligibility. We obtained full versions of potentially relevant studies and two review authors independently screened these against the inclusion criteria. We identified no studies that met the inclusion criteria. We set out to evaluate the RCT evidence pertaining to the impact of wound-care teams on the prevention and management of pressure ulcers. However, no studies met the inclusion criteria. There is a lack of evidence concerning whether wound-care teams make a difference to the incidence or healing of pressure ulcers. Well-designed trials addressing important clinical, quality of life and economic outcomes are justified, based on the incidence of the problem and the high costs associated with pressure ulcer management.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 2 <1%
Unknown 266 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 37 14%
Student > Bachelor 35 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 26 10%
Researcher 19 7%
Student > Postgraduate 15 6%
Other 46 17%
Unknown 90 34%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 66 25%
Nursing and Health Professions 58 22%
Psychology 11 4%
Social Sciences 9 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 1%
Other 25 9%
Unknown 95 35%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 December 2019.
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#3,571,340
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Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#6,125
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Outputs of similar age
#43,460
of 268,446 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#155
of 270 outputs
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