Papers/PMID:24738988
Meta-analysis of prevention of surgical site infections following incision closure with triclosan-coated sutures: robustness to new evidence.
Surgical infections2014The record
1 finding · 1 compound · 1 endpoint
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triclosan — decreases wound infection incidence
Very limitedEvidence strength: very limited. Human evidence with major recorded weaknesses, or non-human, uncontrolled or unverified evidence.Findingreplicated ×2“This SLR and meta-analysis showed that the use of triclosan antimicrobial sutures reduced the incidence of SSI after clean, clean-contaminated, and contaminated surgery.”
Quoted verbatim from Meta-analysis of prevention of surgical site infections following incision closure with triclosan-coated sutures: robustness to new evidence.. - Study
- meta-analysis
- Population
- Surgical patients undergoing clean, clean-contaminated and contaminated surgery, pooled from 15 RCTs
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