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ArticleNursing2020

Choosing a support surface for pressure injury prevention and treatment.

Laurie McNichol, Dianne Mackey, Carolyn Watts, Nicolette Zuecca

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Article in Nursing, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Laurie McNicholLaurie McNichol is a Wound Ostomy and Continence (WOC) nurse and clinical nurse specialist at Cone Health in Greensboro, N.C. Dianne Mackey is a WOC nurse, staff educator, and chair, National Wound Management Sourcing and Standard Team, Home Health/Hospice/Palliative Care, at Kaiser Permanente in San Diego, Calif. Carolyn Watts is a WOC nurse and senior associate in surgery, clinical nurse specialist, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn. Nicolette Zuecca is chief staff executive at the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society in Mount Laurel, N.J.
Dianne Mackey
Carolyn Watts
Nicolette Zuecca

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article discusses an evidence- and consensus-based support-surface algorithm designed to help clinicians choose the most appropriate support surface for preventing or treating pressure injuries based on patient, nurse, and institutional considerations.

Indexed as

AlgorithmsBedsClinical Decision-MakingConsensusEvidence-Based PracticeHumansNurse CliniciansPressure UlcerRisk Factors

Identifiers

PMID31904618
PMCPMC7329246

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