Medication‐impregnated dressings vs other types of dressings: Catheter‐related blood stream infection
Medication‐impregnated dressings leads to lower catheter‐related blood stream infection compared with all other dressing types (high certainty).
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Medication‐impregnated dressings vs all other dressing types Catheter‐related blood stream infection · patients with CVCs Medication‐impregnated dressings leads to lower catheter‐related blood stream infection compared with all other dressing types (high certainty). Dressings and securement devices for central venous catheters (CVC) (2015) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.6 [0.39, 0.93] | 6 studies · 5687 participants | High |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dressings and securement devices for central venous catheters (CVC) 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.