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Use of compression therapy to treat lower limb wounds across Europe: a scoping review protocol
  1. Ray Samuriwo1,2,
  2. Natalia Christiansen3,
  3. Alison Hopkins4
  1. 1School of Healthcare Sciences, Cardiff University College of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Cardiff, UK
  2. 2Wales Centre for Evidence Based Care, School of Healthcare Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
  3. 3European Wound Management Association, Frederiksberg, Denmark
  4. 4Accelerate CIC, St Joseph’s Hospice, London, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Ray Samuriwo; samuriwor{at}cardiff.ac.uk

Abstract

Introduction Poor lower wound care is an avoidable patient harm. Compression therapy is an effective way of treating non-ischaemic lower limbs wounds, but it is not always used appropriately. There are many guidelines which set out how compression therapy should be used, but there is dearth of evidence about how it is actually used at a population level across Europe.

Aim The aim of this scoping review is to map the evidence published in English relating to the use of compression therapy to treat lower limb wounds across Europe.

Methods This scoping review will be conducted in line with the Joanna Briggs Institute and Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses for Protocols and Scoping Reviews guidance. A search for relevant publications will be conducted on variety of databases and key websites in order to identify a comprehensive range of relevant literature. Peer reviewed empirical papers, theoretical papers and other publications in English relating to the use of compression therapy across Europe will be considered for inclusion.

Ethics and dissemination Ethical and research governance for this scoping review is not required because we will only gather secondary data. Our results will be disseminated to the widest possible audience through an open access paper in a peer reviewed international journal, conference presentations and a plain English summary. The results of this scoping review will be used by a panel of Key Opinion Leaders from across Europe to develop a driver diagram to underpin subsequent lower limb wound care improvement efforts.

  • therapeutics
  • wound management
  • health services administration & management
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https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-039008

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    Footnotes

    • Contributors The scoping review was conceived and designed by RS. This study will be undertaken by RS, NC and AH. Data collected by RS, NC. Data analysis and interpretation conducted by RS, NC and AH. First draft of manuscript was written by RS. Authors who contributed to the writing of the manuscript: RS, NC and AH. ICMJE criteria for authorship met by: RS, NC and AH. Read and approved the manuscript as submitted: RS, NC and AH.

    • Funding This scoping review is a part of the European Wound Management Association compression therapy quality improvement project. This compression therapy quality improvement project is funded through an unrestricted educational grant from Essity, Hartmann and Urgo Medical.

    • Competing interests One of the authors, NC is employed by the European Wound Management Association.

    • Patient and public involvement Patients and/or the public were not involved in the design, or conduct, or reporting, or dissemination plans of this research.

    • Patient consent for publication Not required.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.