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Dressings for treating foot ulcers in people with diabetes: an overview of systematic reviews

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, July 2015
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Title
Dressings for treating foot ulcers in people with diabetes: an overview of systematic reviews
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, July 2015
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd010471.pub2
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Authors

Lihua Wu, Gill Norman, Jo C Dumville, Susan O'Meara, Sally EM Bell‐Syer

Abstract

Foot ulcers in people with diabetes mellitus are a common and serious global health issue. Dressings form a key part of ulcer treatment, with clinicians and patients having many different types to choose from. A clear and current overview of current evidence is required to facilitate decision-making regarding dressing use. To summarize data from systematic reviews of randomised controlled trial evidence on the effectiveness of dressings for healing foot ulcers in people with diabetes mellitus (DM). We searched the following databases for relevant systematic reviews and associated analyses: the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL; The Cochrane Library 2015, Issue 2); Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE; The Cochrane Library 2015, Issue 1); Ovid MEDLINE (In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations, 14 April 2015); Ovid EMBASE (1980 to 14 April 2015). We also handsearched the Cochrane Wounds Group list of reviews. Two review authors independently performed study selection, risk of bias assessment and data extraction. Complete wound healing was the primary outcome assessed; secondary outcomes included health-related quality of life, adverse events, resource use and dressing performance. We found 13 eligible systematic reviews relevant to this overview that contained a total of 17 relevant RCTs. One review reported the results of a network meta-analysis and so presented information on indirect, as well as direct, treatment effects. Collectively the reviews reported findings for 11 different comparisons supported by direct data and 26 comparisons supported by indirect data only. Only four comparisons informed by direct data found evidence of a difference in wound healing between dressing types, but the evidence was assessed as being of low or very low quality (in one case data could not be located and checked). There was also no robust evidence of a difference between dressing types for any secondary outcomes assessed. There is currently no robust evidence for differences between wound dressings for any outcome in foot ulcers in people with diabetes (treated in any setting). Practitioners may want to consider the unit cost of dressings, their management properties and patient preference when choosing dressings.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 409 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 69 17%
Student > Bachelor 45 11%
Researcher 30 7%
Other 25 6%
Student > Ph. D. Student 24 6%
Other 77 19%
Unknown 139 34%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 116 28%
Nursing and Health Professions 62 15%
Psychology 11 3%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 9 2%
Unspecified 8 2%
Other 59 14%
Unknown 144 35%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 43. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 April 2020.
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#1,047,327
of 26,737,020 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#1,927
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Outputs of similar age
#11,878
of 277,348 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#37
of 282 outputs
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