Surgical site infection · adult patients with surgical wounds healing by primary closure
Negative pressure wound therapy probably leads to lower surgical site infection (proportion of participants in each group… compared with standard dressing (moderate certainty).
1 finding from 1 review
Surgical site infection · surgical patients
Shaving probably leads to higher surgical site infection (SSI) compared with clipping (moderate certainty).
1 finding from 1 review
Surgical site infection · surgical patients
Shaving probably leads to higher surgical site infection (SSI) compared with cream (moderate certainty).
1 finding from 1 review
Surgical site infection · surgical patients
Depilatory cream showed no clear difference in surgical site infection (SSI) compared with no hair removal (low certainty).
1 finding from 1 review
Surgical site infection · surgical patients
Clipping showed no clear difference in surgical site infection (SSIs) compared with no hair removal (low certainty).
1 finding from 1 review
Surgical site infection · surgical patients
Hair removal the day before surgery showed no clear difference in surgical site infection (SSIs) compared with hair removal on the day of surgery (low certainty).
1 finding from 1 review
Surgical site infection · surgical patients
Shaving probably leads to higher surgical site infection (SSIs) compared with no hair removal (moderate certainty).
1 finding from 1 review
Intervention not reported
Surgical site infection (all wound classifications) Inspection of the wound1 ( · Patients undergoing surgery
The intervention leads to higher surgical site infection (all wound classifications) Inspection of… (high certainty).
1 finding from 1 review
Surgical site infection · skin closure in non‐obstetric surgery
Subcuticular sutures showed no clear difference in surgical site infection (SSI) Incidence of wound infection compared with transdermal sutures (low certainty).
1 finding from 1 review