Effect of enhanced recovery after surgery nursing on the incidence of surgical site wound infection in older adults with hip fractures: A meta-analysis

This meta-analysis evaluated the effect of enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) nursing on the incidence surgical site wound infection in older adults with hip fractures. The PubMed, Embase, the Cochrane Library, Web of Science, China Biomedical Literature Database, Wanfang, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, and VIP databases were searched from inception up to March 2023 for articles on randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on the effect of ERAS nursing on surgical site wound infection in older adults with hip fractures. Patients in the experimental group received ERAS nursing, and patients in the control group received conventional postoperative nursing. Two researchers independently completed literature screening and data extraction. The included articles were evaluated according to Cochrane quality assessment standards and the meta-analysis was conducted using Stata 17.0 software to calculate the effect sizes and their 95% confidence intervals (CIs). Twelve RCTs were included with 1117 patients, including 559 in the experimental group and 558 in the control group. In older adults with hip fractures, ERAS nursing reduced the risk of surgical site wound infection (odds ratio [OR]: 0.26, 95% CI: 0.11-0.58, p = 0.001) and postoperative complications (OR: 0.22, 95% CI: 0.14-0.33, p < 0.001), and reduced the length of hospital stay (mean difference: -4.04 days, 95% CI: -4.33 to -3.76 days, p < 0.001). In older adults with hip fractures, ERAS nursing reduces the incidence of surgical site infection and complications and shortens the length of hospital stay.