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ReviewInternational wound journal2025

The Impact of Chronic Wound Exudate on the Patient, Clinician and Payer: Addressing the Challenges With Foam Dressings.

Joshua S Mervis

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Review in International wound journal, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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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

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 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

1 author.

Joshua S MervisDepartment of Dermatology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4395-8871

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chronic wounds are often highly exudative. If not managed properly, chronic wound exudate will result in complications that delay healing and have highly detrimental effects on patients and their carers, as well as add substantial costs to the healthcare system as a whole. This short review article focuses on the role that foam dressings play in achieving moisture balance in the wound while protecting surrounding skin, with emphasis on how their structure and composition contribute to their ability to accomplish these goals. Foam dressing properties can create a conducive environment for wound healing, which ultimately has positive health and economic benefits for patients and society at large. It is hoped that, by reading this article, healthcare professionals will have a better understanding of the role of foam dressings in managing exudate and be better equipped to critique laboratory and clinical studies that have been undertaken to evaluate their performance.

Indexed as

BandagesExudates and TransudatesWound HealingWounds and InjuriesChronic DiseaseFemaleHumansMalechronic woundfoam dressingquality of lifesocioeconomic burdenwound exudate

Identifiers

PMID40360400
PMCPMC12074858

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