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Electromagnetic therapy for treating pressure ulcers

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, September 2015
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Title
Electromagnetic therapy for treating pressure ulcers
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Cochrane database of systematic reviews, September 2015
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd002930.pub6
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Zoriah Aziz, Sally EM Bell‐Syer

Abstract

Pressure ulcers are defined as areas "of localized damage to the skin and underlying tissue caused by pressure, shear, friction and/or the combination of these". Electromagnetic therapy (EMT), in which electrodes produce an electromagnetic field across the wound, may improve healing of chronic wounds such as pressure ulcers. To assess the effects of EMT on the healing of pressure ulcers. For this update we searched the Cochrane Wounds Group Specialised Register (searched 10 June 2015); The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) (The Cochrane Library 2015, Issue 6); Ovid MEDLINE (2014 to 10 June 2015); Ovid MEDLINE (In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations, 10 June 2015); Ovid EMBASE (2014 to 10 June 2015); and EBSCO CINAHL (2014 to 6 July 2012). Randomised controlled trials comparing EMT with sham EMT or other (standard) treatment. For this update two review authors independently scrutinised the results of the search to identify relevant RCTs and obtained full reports of potentially eligible studies. In previous versions of the review we made attempts to obtain missing data by contacting study authors. A second review author checked data extraction and disagreements were resolved after discussion between review authors. We identified no new trials for this update.Two randomised controlled trials (RCTs), involving 60 participants, at unclear risk of bias were included in the original review. Both trials compared the use of EMT with sham EMT, although one of the trials included a third arm in which only standard therapy was applied. Neither study found a statistically significant difference in complete healing in people treated with EMT compared with those in the control group. In one trial that assessed percentage reduction in wound surface area, the difference between the two groups was reported to be statistically significant in favour of EMT. However, this result should be interpreted with caution as this is a small study and this finding may be due to chance. Additionally, the outcome, percentage reduction in wound area, is less clinically meaningful than complete healing. The results provide no strong evidence of benefit in using EMT to treat pressure ulcers. However, the possibility of a beneficial or harmful effect cannot be ruled out because there were only two included trials, both with methodological limitations and small numbers of participants. Further research is recommended.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Canada 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 187 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 23 12%
Student > Bachelor 19 10%
Researcher 16 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 7%
Other 11 6%
Other 47 25%
Unknown 60 32%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 60 32%
Nursing and Health Professions 19 10%
Psychology 5 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 2%
Social Sciences 4 2%
Other 27 14%
Unknown 70 37%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. 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 11 February 2021.
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#8,571,053
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Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#9,070
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#95,071
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Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#212
of 269 outputs
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