Wound Bed Preparation 2021.
R Gary Sibbald, James A Elliott, Reneeka Persaud-Jaimangal and 17 others
PMID 33739948WHAT IT FOUND
Wound care leaders and trained students agreed with every Wound Bed Preparation statement.
This is consensus guidance, not proof that using it improves healing.
Key findings
01Key opinion leaders agreed with every statement, with consensus between 86% and 100%.
02Students in the Abu Dhabi and Canada wound care classes showed high agreement: Abu Dhabi 98% to 100%, Canada 85% to 100%.
03The comparatively low agreement among key opinion leaders was for Statement 5, but it still reached 86%.
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What it does not show
The study measured agreement with statements, not wound healing outcomes. Participants were wound care experts and course students, not patients or families. The paper states how many people were asked to take the survey but not how many responded or were analysed; agreement percentages may not represent all invited practitioners. The lower agreement with Statement 5 is attributed by the authors to facility limitations, but the survey did not test that reason.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read the high agreement as evidence that the Wound Bed Preparation statements improve healing. The survey measured agreement with statements, not patient outcomes.