Topical disinfectants vs standard care or other active treatment (antibiotic or other disinfectant): Exit‐site/tunnel infection
Topical disinfectants showed no clear difference in exit‐site/tunnel infection (number of patients with one or more… compared with standard care or other active treatment (antibiotic or other… (low certainty).
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Topical disinfectants vs standard care or other active treatment (antibiotic or other disinfectant) Exit‐site/tunnel infection (number of patients with one or more episodes) · patients with CKD on peritoneal dialysis Topical disinfectants showed no clear difference in exit‐site/tunnel infection (number of patients with one or more… compared with standard care or other active treatment (antibiotic or other… (low certainty). Antimicrobial agents for preventing peritonitis in peritoneal dialysis patients (2017) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.97 [0.74, 1.27] | 7 studies · 913 participants | Low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Antimicrobial agents for preventing peritonitis in peritoneal dialysis patients 2017 · 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.