[Objectives]The paper was to analyze the total prevalence of postoperative pressure ulcers in patients and to reveal the epidemic law.[Methods]By searching English databases such as PubMed,Google Academics,Scopus,Scie...[Objectives]The paper was to analyze the total prevalence of postoperative pressure ulcers in patients and to reveal the epidemic law.[Methods]By searching English databases such as PubMed,Google Academics,Scopus,Science Direct and Web of Science(WOS),a total of 2018 English articles on pressure ulcers published from January 2015 to December 2020 were selected.According to the inclusion criteria,19 high-quality literatures were selected for the study,and the extended function of meta-analysis software of Review Manager 5.1 diagnostic test was used for data statistics and meta analysis of the results.[Results]There were 19 literatures with a total of 9400 patients included in the meta-analysis.The results showed that the total prevalence estimate of postoperative pressure ulcers was 20.00%(CI 95%:15.3-24.1).The total prevalence estimate of postoperative pressure ulcers in males was 10.1%(CI 95%:7.2-13.02),and that in females was 12.8%(CI 95%:8.1-17.3).The total prevalence estimates of stage I to IV postoperative pressure ulcers were 17.02%(CI 95%:11.06-22.09),6.7%(CI 95%:3.76-9.69),0.9%(CI 95%:0.21-1.26)and 0.4%(CI 95%:-0.05-0.8),respectively.[Conclusions]The prevalence of postoperative pressure ulcers is generally high.The prevalence of postoperative pressure ulcers in females is higher than that in males,and the prevalence of stage I pressure ulcers is higher than that of other stages,which is related to age,gender and other related risk factors.展开更多
文摘[Objectives]The paper was to analyze the total prevalence of postoperative pressure ulcers in patients and to reveal the epidemic law.[Methods]By searching English databases such as PubMed,Google Academics,Scopus,Science Direct and Web of Science(WOS),a total of 2018 English articles on pressure ulcers published from January 2015 to December 2020 were selected.According to the inclusion criteria,19 high-quality literatures were selected for the study,and the extended function of meta-analysis software of Review Manager 5.1 diagnostic test was used for data statistics and meta analysis of the results.[Results]There were 19 literatures with a total of 9400 patients included in the meta-analysis.The results showed that the total prevalence estimate of postoperative pressure ulcers was 20.00%(CI 95%:15.3-24.1).The total prevalence estimate of postoperative pressure ulcers in males was 10.1%(CI 95%:7.2-13.02),and that in females was 12.8%(CI 95%:8.1-17.3).The total prevalence estimates of stage I to IV postoperative pressure ulcers were 17.02%(CI 95%:11.06-22.09),6.7%(CI 95%:3.76-9.69),0.9%(CI 95%:0.21-1.26)and 0.4%(CI 95%:-0.05-0.8),respectively.[Conclusions]The prevalence of postoperative pressure ulcers is generally high.The prevalence of postoperative pressure ulcers in females is higher than that in males,and the prevalence of stage I pressure ulcers is higher than that of other stages,which is related to age,gender and other related risk factors.
