Continuous skin sutures vs interrupted skin sutures: Superficial wound dehiscence
Continuous skin sutures may leads to lower superficial wound dehiscence compared with interrupted skin sutures (low certainty).
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Continuous skin sutures vs interrupted skin sutures Superficial wound dehiscence · participants with non‐obstetric surgery Continuous skin sutures may leads to lower superficial wound dehiscence compared with interrupted skin sutures (low certainty). Continuous versus interrupted skin sutures for non‐obstetric surgery (2014) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.08 [0.02, 0.35] | 4 studies · 625 participants | Low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Continuous versus interrupted skin sutures for non‐obstetric surgery 2014 · 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.