Efficacy and Effectiveness of Prophylactic fOam dressings in the prevention of saCral pressure injuries in at-risk hospitalised patients: The EEPOC Trial

使用敷料来预防医院获得性压力损伤(PI)的情况正在增长，但缺乏其有效性的证据。在重症监护环境中进行的大部分PI预防研究被评估为质量非常低。没有证据表明敷料在医院病房预防PI的临床效果，尽管它们的使用越来越多，对卫生服务造成了巨大的损失。这项多点随机对照试验将提供急需的高水平证据。

The use of dressings to prevent hospital acquired pressure injury (PI) is growing, yet evidence of their effectiveness is lacking. The bulk of PI prevention research conducted in critical care settings has been assessed as being very low quality. There is no evidence of clinical effectiveness of dressings to prevent PI in hospital wards despite their increasing use at great expense to health services. This multi-site randomised controlled trial will provide much needed high-level evidence.