Trial reportPediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies2017
Reducing Pediatric Sternal Wound Infections: A Quality Improvement Project.
Trial report in Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.
- Reducing surgical site infections among paediatric patients undergoing cardiac surgery: a multi-disciplinary quality improvement initiative.Infection prevention in practice · 2026Article
- Prevalence and outcomes of postoperative infection among pediatric congenital heart disease patients in intensive care units: a single center retrospective study.BMC infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Article
- Impact of delayed sternal closure on wound infections following neonatal and infant cardiac surgery.PloS one · 2022Article
- Management of pediatric cardiac surgery wound: a literature review.Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis · 2021Review
- Survey on Sternal Wound Management in the Italian Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Units.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- A Quality Improvement Initiative to Reduce Surgical Site Infections in Patients Undergoing Delayed Sternal Closure After Pediatric Cardiac Surgery.Pediatric cardiology · 2020Article
- A Quality Improvement Initiative to Reduce Surgical Site Infections in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Cardiothoracic Surgery.Pediatric quality & safetyArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
objectivesTo evaluate whether a quality improvement intervention reduces sternal wound infection rates in children after cardiac surgery.
designThis is a pre- and postintervention quality improvement study.
settingA 16-bed cardiac ICU in a university-affiliated pediatric tertiary care children's hospital. PATIENTS: All patients undergoing cardiac surgery via median sternotomy from January 2010 to December 2014 are included. The sternal wound infection rates for primary closure and delayed sternal closure are reported per 100 sternotomies. The hospital-acquired infection records were used to identify preintervention cases, while postintervention cases were collected prospectively.
interventionImplementation of a sternal wound prevention bundle during the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative periods for cardiac surgical cases. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN
resultsDuring the preintervention period, 32 patients (3.8%) developed sternal wound infection, whereas only 19 (2.1%) developed sternal wound infection during the postintervention period (p = 0.04). The rates of sternal wound infection following primary closure were not significantly different pre- and postintervention (2.4% vs 1.6%; p = 0.35). However, patients with delayed sternal closure had significantly lower postintervention infection rates (10.6% vs 3.9%; p = 0.02).
conclusionsImplementation of a sternal wound prevention bundle during the perioperative period was associated with lower sternal wound infection rates in surgeries with delayed sternal closure.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.