Gethin Georgina, LeBlanc Kimberly, Ivory John D, McIntosh Caroline, Pastor Damien, Naughten Enda, Hobbs Chloe, McGrath Barry, Cunningham Stephen, Joshi Lokesh, Moloney Suzanne, Probst Sebastian
School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland.
University of Galway, Alliance for Research and Innovation in Wounds, Galway, Ireland.
HRB Open Res. 2023 Sep 13;6:54. doi: 10.12688/hrbopenres.13739.1. eCollection 2023.
The objective of this scoping review is to map, from wound assessment tools and other literature, the current methods used to assess wound odour in order to answer the following question: Which methods of assessment, validated or otherwise, are currently used in wound assessment tools to assess wound odour? Wound assessment includes not only details of the condition of the wound bed but also evaluation of symptoms associated with the wound including that of odour. Odour is cited by clinicians, patients and carers as one of the most distressing wound symptoms. However, there is no consensus on a preferred method to assess odour thus negatively impacting the internal and external validity of many clinical trials and minimising the ability to perform meta-analysis. Any wound assessment tool or framework that includes assessment of wound odour in any wound aetiology and in any care setting. Any systematic or scoping review that includes assessment of wound odour in any wound aetiology and in any care setting. No limits on date of publication or language will be applied. We will employ the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses extension for scoping reviews (PRISMA-ScR) guidelines for this scoping review and base its structure on the framework proposed by Arksey and O'Malley. A narrative format will summarise extracted data and provide an overview of tools used to assess wound odour. A PRISMA diagram will outline the results of the search strategy. The identified tools will be summarised in table format and stratified according to methods used. The result of this scoping review will be a list of methods used to assess odour in wounds and will be used to inform a subsequent Delphi study to gain consensus on the preferred method to assess wound odour.
本范围综述的目的是从伤口评估工具及其他文献中梳理出当前用于评估伤口气味的方法，以回答以下问题：在伤口评估工具中，目前使用了哪些经过验证或未经验证的评估方法来评估伤口气味？伤口评估不仅包括伤口床状况的细节，还包括对与伤口相关症状（包括气味）的评估。临床医生、患者及护理人员都将气味列为最令人苦恼的伤口症状之一。然而，对于评估气味的首选方法尚无共识，这对许多临床试验的内部和外部有效性产生了负面影响，并降低了进行荟萃分析的能力。纳入任何伤口病因及任何护理环境下的伤口气味评估的任何伤口评估工具或框架。纳入任何伤口病因及任何护理环境下的伤口气味评估的任何系统综述或范围综述。对发表日期或语言不设限制。我们将采用系统综述和荟萃分析的首选报告项目扩展版（PRISMA-ScR）指南进行本范围综述，并依据阿克西和奥马利提出的框架构建其结构。将以叙述形式总结提取的数据，并概述用于评估伤口气味的工具。PRISMA流程图将概述检索策略的结果。所识别的工具将以表格形式总结，并根据使用的方法进行分层。本范围综述的结果将是一份用于评估伤口气味的方法清单，并将用于为后续的德尔菲研究提供信息，以就评估伤口气味的首选方法达成共识。
