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KPV in cutaneous wound healing and tissue repair — evidence extract

No eligible study has been identified for KPV in cutaneous wound healing and tissue repair. The Institute records the question as not assessed and states what would change that.

Document identifier
CEI-MN-034/EV-WOUND-HEALING
Series
Evidence extract
Version
1.3
Published
01 Feb 2023
Last reviewed
01 Mar 2024
Next review
01 Mar 2026
Identifier
10.71829/cei.mono.34
Certainty
Not rated
Cycle
2023 Q1

§1Evidence extract: Cutaneous wound healing and tissue repair

§1.1Question and anchor outcome

Population
Restoration of epithelial and dermal integrity following injury, assessed by closure rate, area reduction and scar quality.
Intervention
KPV, oral, topical or subcutaneous in preclinical studies
Comparator
As used in each contributing trial; reported per trial rather than pooled across comparator types
Anchor outcome
Time to complete closure

Additional outcomes the Institute extracts for this indication: Percentage area reduction; Scar assessment scale; Infection rate.

§1.2Contributing trials

No trial has been identified for KPV in cutaneous wound healing and tissue repair. No certainty rating is issued where that is so, for the reason given at §1.3.

§1.3Why no certainty rating is issued

The Institute rates certainty in a body of evidence. Where no eligible study has been identified there is no such body, and the domain-by-domain assessment used elsewhere in this series is not rendered: an inconsistency judgement requires two estimates to be inconsistent with one another, and an imprecision judgement requires an interval. Neither exists here.

The outcome is therefore recorded as not assessed. It is listed in the certainty index under that heading rather than at the lowest rating, because a rating of very low certainty says that evidence was found and is weak, and that is not what has happened.

What would change this: a controlled study in the population stated at §1.1, reporting the anchor outcome, retrievable in a form the Institute can appraise. The evidence gaps recorded in the monograph at §9 state what such a study would need to measure.

§1.4What this extract does not establish

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