Abstract
BACKGROUND: Pressure injuries, also known as pressure ulcers, are local skin injuries. Once a pressure injury occurs, clinical treatment is relatively difficult, the treatment cycle is long, and the treatment cost is high, which brings heavy burdens to patients and society. Therefore, look for a reliable pressure injuries treatment method is 1 of the focus of clinical nursing workers. OBJECTIVE: At present, there are many kinds of dressings to treat pressure injuries, and there is no uniform conclusion about which dressing is the most effective. Therefore, we systematically evaluate the effects of different dressings on the treatment of pressure injuries. METHODS: We systematically searched the Chinese and English databases: PubMed, Embase, CENTRAL, CINAHL, Web of Science, CNKI, CBM, VIP, Wan Fang. Literature screening, data extraction, and quality evaluation were carried out by 2 researchers, and finally, use R software to carry out network meta-analysis. RESULTS: This study is ongoing and the results will be submitted to a peer-reviewed journal for publication. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: Ethical approval is not applicable, since this is an overview based on published articles. PROTOCOL REGISTRATION NUMBER: INPLASY2020100087.