Risk factors predicting hospital-acquired pressure injury in adult patients: An overview of reviews

Ref ID 1071
First Author I. Wang
Journal INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NURSING STUDIES
Year Of Publishing 2024
URL https://www-sciencedirect-com.sheffield.idm.oclc.org/science/article/pii/S0020748923002079?via%3Dihub
Keywords • Low methodological quality
• General medical
Problem(s) • Insufficient literature searches
• Reasons for excluding potentially eligible studies not provided
• Conflicts of interest or funding of included studies not assessed
• Low methodological (AMSTAR) quality
• No registered or published protocol
Article Type Empirical
Article Subtype Cross-sectional survey/Methodological systematic review
First Author Country Australia
Checklists • AMSTAR 2
Aim To summarise and synthesise systematic reviews that identify risk factors for hospital-acquired pressure injury development in adult patients.
Level of Investigation Descriptive
Summary of Findings The overall quality of the 11 included reviews was low in five studies (45 %) and critically low in six studies (55 %).None of the reviews provided a list of excluded studies or reported on the sources of funding for the included studies and only 2 reviews (18.0%) reported that a protocol had been developed. Only one review (9.0%) fully reported the use of a comprehensive literature search strategy.
Number of systematic reviews included 11
Number of eligible systematic reviews assessed 96
Treatment impacted No
Treatment impacted description
Interpretation impacted Not Applicable
Interpretation impacted description