Table 3.
Dressing types according to risk factors
| Basic | Advanced | Tissue adhesive | No dressing | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patients | Wounds | Patients | Wounds | Patients | Wounds | Patients | Wounds | |
| (n = 512) | (n = 1203) | (n = 17) | (n = 18) | (n = 186) | (n = 485) | (n = 31) | (n = 63) | |
| Stoma formation | 56 (10·9) | 96 (8·0) | 5 (29) | 5 (28) | 32 (17·2) | 70 (14·4) | 6 (19) | 9 (14) |
| Diabetes* | 43 (8·4) | 85 (7·1) | 2 (13) | 2 (14) | 17 (9·2) | 51 (10·5) | 3 (10) | 6 (10) |
| ASA fitness grade† | ||||||||
| I | 163 (32·0) | 403 (33·7) | 5 (29) | 6 (33) | 55 (29·7) | 148 (31) | 8 (27) | 20 (32) |
| II | 238 (46·8) | 584 (48·8) | 7 (41) | 7 (39) | 92 (49·7) | 231 (48) | 16 (53) | 31 (50) |
| III | 98 (19·3) | 198 (16·7) | 5 (29) | 5 (28) | 36 (19·5) | 96 (20) | 6 (20) | 11 (18) |
| IV | 10 (2·0) | 11 (0·9) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 2 (1·1) | 6 (1) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
| BMI (kg/m2)‡ | ||||||||
| < 20 | 36 (7·3) | 81 (7·0) | 1 (6) | 1 (6) | 12 (6·5) | 19 (4·0) | 3 (11) | 9 (15) |
| 20–25 | 196 (39·5) | 426 (36·9) | 5 (31) | 5 (29) | 74 (40·0) | 175 (36·4) | 13 (46) | 23 (39) |
| 26–30 | 163 (32·9) | 401 (34·7) | 6 (38) | 7 (41) | 63 (34·1) | 165 (34·3) | 8 (29) | 19 (32) |
| > 30 | 101 (20·4) | 246 (21·3) | 4 (25) | 4 (24) | 36 (19·5) | 122 (25·4) | 4 (14) | 8 (14) |
Values in parentheses are percentages. The total number of patients across all dressing groups is 746 (not 727) as some patients had different types of dressing applied and therefore fell into more than one category. This table does not include the 25 wounds for which dressing type was not recorded. Information missing for:
*
eight wounds [3 patients] (4 [2] basic, 4 [1] advanced);
†
12 wounds [4 patients] (7 [3] basic, 4 [1] tissue adhesive, 1 [1] no dressing – 1 patient had 2 different wound dressings); ‡58 wounds [20 patients] (49 [16] basic, 1 [1] advanced, 4 [1] tissue adhesive, 4 [3] no dressing – 1 patient had 2 different wound dressings).