Silver‐alginate dressing vs control: CRBSI ‐ Unit of analysis: catheters Clinial and microbiological methods
Silver‐alginate dressing showed no clear difference in CRBSI ‐ Unit of analysis: catheters Clinial and microbiological… compared with control (moderate certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Silver‐alginate dressing vs control CRBSI ‐ Unit of analysis: catheters Clinial and microbiological methods · newborn infants with central venous catheters Silver‐alginate dressing showed no clear difference in CRBSI ‐ Unit of analysis: catheters Clinial and microbiological… compared with control (moderate certainty). Antimicrobial dressings for the prevention of catheter‐related infections in newborn infants with central… (2016) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.72 [0.27, 1.89] | 1 study · 118 participants | Moderate |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Antimicrobial dressings for the prevention of catheter‐related infections in newborn infants with central venous catheters 2016 · 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.