4Wounds Wound Care Clinic, Pretoria, South Africa.
Centre for Molecular Medicine and Innovative Therapeutics, Health Futures Institute, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia.
J Wound Care. 2024 Aug 2;33(Sup8):S4-S8. doi: 10.12968/jowc.2024.0102.
The objective of the scoping review will be to understand and describe risk factors associated with surgical site infection (SSI) in an orthopaedic surgery population in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Africa. This paper describes the protocol that will be used for the scoping review.
A comprehensive literature search will be conducted using MEDLINE (PubMed), CINAHL (EBSCO), Embase and Cochrane Libraries to identify articles meeting the inclusion criteria, including both published and grey literature, in order to provide a broad overview of the reported risk factors associated with patients who have undergone an orthopaedic surgery with an outcome of SSI within 90 days of a procedure. Additional studies will be sourced by exploring the reference list of included eligible studies. By using a combination of the Population, Exposure, Outcome framework, terms and synonyms related to each category, in different variations, along with Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) in the search strategy, identified comprehensive and relevant literature for the scoping review.
It is anticipated the results will provide a baseline of risk factors that will inform the development of a risk assessment tool for clinical use.
This protocol will inform the development of a scoping review to describe factors associated with SSIs following orthopaedic surgery in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Africa.
本次范围综述的目的是了解和描述撒哈拉以南非洲和南非骨科手术人群中与手术部位感染（SSI）相关的风险因素。本文介绍了将用于范围综述的方案。
将使用 MEDLINE（PubMed）、CINAHL（EBSCO）、Embase 和 Cochrane 图书馆进行全面的文献检索，以确定符合纳入标准的文章，包括已发表和灰色文献，以便全面概述与在手术后 90 天内发生 SSI 的接受骨科手术的患者相关的报告风险因素。通过查阅纳入的合格研究的参考文献，还将找到其他研究。通过使用人群、暴露、结局框架，以及不同变体中与每个类别相关的术语和同义词，以及搜索策略中的布尔运算符（AND、OR、NOT），确定了范围综述的综合和相关文献。
预计结果将提供基线风险因素，为开发用于临床使用的风险评估工具提供信息。
本方案将为描述撒哈拉以南非洲和南非骨科手术后 SSI 相关因素的范围综述的制定提供信息。
