Bluebelle pilot randomised controlled trial of three wound dressing strategies to reduce surgical site infection in primary surgical wounds

Objective Surgical site infection (SSI) affects up to 25% of primary surgical wounds. Dressing strategies may influence SSI risk. The Bluebelle study assessed the feasibility of a multicentre randomised controlled trial (RCT) to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of different dressing...

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Published in:	BMJ Open
Main Authors:	Cathy Winter, Joanna Coast, Danya Bakhbakhi, Dimitrios Siassakos, Nicky J Welton, Benjamin E Byrne, Leila Rooshenas, Jane M Blazeby, Natalie Jackson, Richard Lovegrove, Christel McMullan, Barnaby C Reeves, Natalie S Blencowe, Jane Blazeby, Rachael Gooberman-Hill, Lucy Ellis, Jo C Dumville, Tim Draycott, Anne Pullyblank, Elizabeth Armstrong, Rhiannon Macefield, Lazaros Andronis, Kate Ashton, Madeleine Clout, Daisy Elliott, Rosie Harris, Caroline Pope, Sean Strong, Helen Talbot, Muhammad Atif, Barry Main, Jessica Thrush, Julie Wollaston, Karen Bobruk, Louise Flintoff, Joanna Nicklin, Jo Chambers, Katy Chalmers, Andrew D Torrance, Thomas D Pinkney, Jonathan M Mathers, Robert J Longman, Jenny L Donovan, Melanie J Calvert, Tom Milne, Benjamin R Waterhouse, William Seligman, Lloyd Rickard, Samir Pathak, Anwar Owais, Jamie O'Callaghan, Stephen O'Brien, Khaldoun Nadi, Charlotte Murkin, Tonia Munder, David Messenger, Matthew Mason, Morwena Marshall, Jessica Lloyd, Jeffrey Lim, Kathryn Lee, Vijay Korwar, Daniel Hughes, George Hill, Mohammed Hamdan, Hannah Gould Brown, Caroline Fryer, Simon Davey, David Cotton, Oliver D Brown, Katarzyna D Bera, Joanne Bennett, Richard Bamford, Piriyankan Ananthavarathan, Rebecca Houlihan, Helen Cheshire, Suriya Kirkpatrick, Louise Solomon, Alice Jarvie, Clementine Skilton, Susan Hughes, Michelle Mayer, Jade Knowlden, Mary Alvarez, Sherrie Villis, Kelly Hollier, Victoria Hardy, David Tyrell, Sharon Garner, Arlo Whitehouse, Caroline Alton, Katrina Hurley, David Hutton, Trudie Young
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	BMJ Publishing Group 2020-01-01
Online Access:	https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/10/1/e030615.full