Nurses’ knowledge and its determinants in surgical site infection prevention: A comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 20; no. 1; p. e0317887
• Main Authors: Habtie, Tesfaye Engdaw, Feleke, Sefineh Fenta, Terefe, Aregash Birhan, Alamaw, Addis Wondmagegn, Abate, Melsew Dagne
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 29.01.2025; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Best practice; Binomial distribution; Care and treatment; Clinical Competence; Complications and side effects; Content analysis; Data analysis; Disease control; Education; Estimates; Guidelines; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Heterogeneity; Humans; Knowledge; Knowledge management; Medical personnel; Medical Subject Headings-MeSH; Medicine and Health Sciences; Meta-analysis; Nurses; Nurses - psychology; Observational studies; People and Places; Physical Sciences; Practice; Prevention; Quality assessment; Quality control; Research and Analysis Methods; Robust control; Scale (ratio); Science Policy; Statistical analysis; Surgery; Surgical site infections; Surgical Wound Infection - prevention & control; Surgical wound infections; Synthesis; Systematic review; Training; Wound healing; Ethiopia; Africa

The objective of this systematic review and meta-analysis is to assess and synthesize the global evidence on the level of nurses' knowledge and its determinants regarding the prevention of surgical site infections. This systematic review and meta-analysis were conducted following strict methodo...