Samuriwo Ray, Christiansen Natalia, Hopkins Alison
School of Healthcare Sciences, Cardiff University College of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Cardiff, UK
Wales Centre for Evidence Based Care, School of Healthcare Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom.
BMJ Open. 2020 Sep 1;10(9):e039008. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-039008.
Poor lower wound care is an avoidable patient harm. Compression therapy is an effective way of treating non-ischaemic lower limbs wounds, but it is not always used appropriately. There are many guidelines which set out how compression therapy should be used, but there is dearth of evidence about how it is actually used at a population level across Europe.
The aim of this scoping review is to map the evidence published in English relating to the use of compression therapy to treat lower limb wounds across Europe.
This scoping review will be conducted in line with the Joanna Briggs Institute and Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses for Protocols and Scoping Reviews guidance. A search for relevant publications will be conducted on variety of databases and key websites in order to identify a comprehensive range of relevant literature. Peer reviewed empirical papers, theoretical papers and other publications in English relating to the use of compression therapy across Europe will be considered for inclusion.
Ethical and research governance for this scoping review is not required because we will only gather secondary data. Our results will be disseminated to the widest possible audience through an open access paper in a peer reviewed international journal, conference presentations and a plain English summary. The results of this scoping review will be used by a panel of Key Opinion Leaders from across Europe to develop a driver diagram to underpin subsequent lower limb wound care improvement efforts.
下肢伤口护理不佳是一种可避免的患者伤害。加压疗法是治疗非缺血性下肢伤口的有效方法，但并非总是得到恰当使用。有许多指南规定了加压疗法的使用方式，但在欧洲人群层面，关于其实际使用情况的证据却很匮乏。
本范围综述的目的是梳理欧洲范围内以英文发表的、与使用加压疗法治疗下肢伤口相关的证据。
本范围综述将按照乔安娜·布里格斯研究所以及系统评价与Meta分析优先报告条目（PRISMA）关于方案和范围综述的指南进行。将在多个数据库和关键网站上搜索相关出版物，以确定一系列全面的相关文献。将纳入经同行评审的实证论文、理论论文以及欧洲范围内与加压疗法使用相关的其他英文出版物。
由于我们仅收集二手数据，因此本范围综述无需进行伦理和研究管理。我们的研究结果将通过同行评审国际期刊上的开放获取论文、会议报告以及通俗易懂的英文摘要，传播给尽可能广泛的受众。来自欧洲各地的关键意见领袖小组将利用本范围综述的结果，绘制驱动图，为后续下肢伤口护理改善工作提供支持。
