Lamyaa Tariq Al-Mohawis

General Practitioner, Dar Aluloom University, Riyadh City, Saudi Arabia

Publications

• Reviews   
  Risk of Surgical Site Infection (SSI) in Diabetes Mellitus Patients: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
  Author(s): Lamyaa Tariq Al-Mohawis, Lamyaa Tariq Al-Mohawis*, Saad Hamad Alfraikh, IbrahimYahya Alfalahi, Abdulrahman Fahad Alotaibi, Abdulaziz Hezam Alqarni, Ibrahim Mohammed Altamimi, Ahad Abdulrahman Alshehri and Khadijah Al Sayednasser
  
  Background: Much has been published in current years about the impact of diabetes on increased rates of surgical site infection (SSI) and the potentially related impact of hyperglycemia on SSI. Surgical site infections are envisioned to have an annual financial impact of extra than 3 billion dollars nationally and are the largest contributor to the general value of healthcare-associated infections. Aim: This work aims to determine the risk of Surgical Site Infection (SSI) in Diabetes Mellitus (DM) patients. Materials and Methods: A systematic search was performed over different medical databases to identify sss studies, which studied the outcome of the SSI group versus the Non-SSI group of DM patients. Using the meta-analysis process, either with fixed or random-effects models, we conducted a meta-analysi.. Read More»