Early dressing removal vs delayed dressing removal: Postoperative superficial infections
It is very uncertain whether early dressing removal changes superficial surgical site infection Superficial surgical site… compared with delayed dressing removal (very low certainty).
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Early dressing removal vs delayed dressing removal Superficial surgical site infection Superficial surgical site infection within 30 days of surgery · people with surgical site infection It is very uncertain whether early dressing removal changes superficial surgical site infection Superficial surgical site… compared with delayed dressing removal (very low certainty). Early versus delayed dressing removal after primary closure of clean and clean‐contaminated surgical wounds (2015) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.64 [0.32, 1.28] | 3 studies · 280 participants | Very low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Early versus delayed dressing removal after primary closure of clean and clean‐contaminated surgical wounds 2015 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | list not extracted yet | Not assessed |
Studies behind the findings
None of these reviews ties its included studies to this outcome in the data here. Cochrane reviews and reviews with headline outcomes only do not list their studies yet.
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.