We systematically evaluated the effect of continuous nursing on surgical site wound infections and postoperative complications in colorectal cancer (CRC) patients with stomas. Computerised searches of Embase, PubMed, Cochrane Library, China National Knowledge Infrastructure and Wanfang databases were conducted to collect clinical studies on CRC patients receiving continuous nursing interventions after colorectal stoma surgery; the search period was from the establishment of each database to August 2023. Two researchers independently screened the literature, extracted the data and completed a literature quality assessment. The meta-analysis was performed using Stata 17.0 and included 20 studies with 1759 patients. The meta-analysis showed that continuous nursing significantly lowered the rates of surgical site wound infection (risk ratio [RR] = 0.24, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.14-0.43, p < 0.001) and postoperative complications (RR = 0.30, 95% CI: 0.23-0.39, p < 0.001) for CRC stoma patients compared with the control group. Therefore, continuous nursing intervention should be promoted for use in clinical care.
Keywords: colorectal cancer; continuous nursing; meta‐analysis; stoma; wound infection.
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