Soap or Saline: Which is better for cleaning wounds?
Description
An experiment where patients' who had open wounds were cleaned with either soap or saline.
Usage
wound
Format
A data frame with 30 rows and 2 variables.
- cleaning
The type of irrigation solution used to clean the wound.
- outcome
If the patient required additional procedures due to infection of the wound.
Source
The FLOW Investigators. 2015. A Trial of Wound Irrigation in the Initial Management of Open Fracture Wounds. New England Journal of Medicine 373:2629-2641.
For an informal overview of the experiment and findings, see this United Press International article.