The risk of surgery-related pressure ulcer in diabetics: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objective

Postoperative pressure ulcers are known as the most important quality indicators of intraoperative care that create critical and costly complications during hospital care. Accordingly, this study was performed to determine the risk factor for diabetes in postoperative pressure ulcers.

Materials and methods

The present study is a systematic review of PubMed, Scopus and the Web of Science databases with using standardized keywords of the performed English language articles between Jan 2010 to Jan 2020. The articles were searched independently by two related researchers to avoid possible biases. Then, all collected articles were reviewed, and articles with inclusion criteria were evaluated using a data collection table. It should be noted that the data

SUBMITTER: Nasiri E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8091875 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature