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SynthesisBMC surgery2020

Surgical site infection and its associated factors in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Wondimeneh Shibabaw Shiferaw, Yared Asmare Aynalem, Tadesse Yirga Akalu, Pammla Margaret Petrucka

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Synthesis in BMC surgery, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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35citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
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35 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 53 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Wondimeneh Shibabaw ShiferawDepartment of Nursing, College of Health Science, Debre Berhan University, P.O. Box 445, Debre Berhan, Ethiopia. wshibabaw2015@gmail.com.
Yared Asmare AynalemDepartment of Nursing, College of Health Science, Debre Berhan University, P.O. Box 445, Debre Berhan, Ethiopia.
Tadesse Yirga AkaluDepartment of Nursing, College of Health Science, Debre Markos University, Debre Markos, Ethiopia.
Pammla Margaret PetruckaCollege of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada.
Debre Berhan University · ETDebre Markos University · ETUniversity of Saskatchewan · CA

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundDespite being a preventable complication of surgical procedures, surgical site infections (SSIs) continue to threaten public health with significant impacts on the patients and the health-care human and financial resources. With millions affected globally, there is significant variation in the primary studies on the prevalence of SSIs in Ethiopia. Therefore, this study aimed to estimate the pooled prevalence of SSI and its associated factors among postoperative patients in Ethiopia.

methodsPubMed, Scopus, Psyinfo, African Journals Online, and Google Scholar were searched for studies that looked at SSI in postoperative patients. A funnel plot and Egger's regression test were used to determine publication bias. The I

resultA total of 24 studies with 13,136 study participants were included in this study. The estimated pooled prevalence of SSI in Ethiopia was 12.3% (95% CI: 10.19, 14.42). Duration of surgery > 1 h (AOR = 1.78; 95% CI: 1.08-2.94), diabetes mellitus (AOR = 3.25; 95% CI: 1.51-6.99), American Society of Anaesthesiologists score > 1 (AOR = 2.51; 95% CI: 1.07-5.91), previous surgery (AOR = 2.5; 95% CI: 1.77-3.53), clean-contaminated wound (AOR = 2.15; 95% CI: 1.52-3.04), and preoperative hospital stay > 7 day (AOR = 5.76; 95% CI: 1.15-28.86), were significantly associated with SSI.

conclusionThe prevalence of SSI among postoperative patients in Ethiopia remains high with a pooled prevalence of 12.3% in 24 extracted studies. Therefore, situation based interventions and region context-specific preventive strategies should be developed to reduce the prevalence of SSI among postoperative patients.

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EthiopiaHumansOdds RatioPrevalenceRisk FactorsSurgical Wound InfectionEthiopiaPostoperativeSurgical site infectionsWound infection

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