Saline vs ethanol for disinfection before penicillin skin test: A Meta-analysis / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To evaluate the saline and ethanol for effects of disinfecting penicillin skin test.Methods Searching CNKI,VIP,CBM and Wanfang Data to collect case-control studies suiting enrolled conditions.Meta-analysis was conducted using Revman 5.0.0 software.Results Five case-control studies with 9 481 patients were enrolled.Meta-analysis demonstrated there was significant difference between saline and ethanol in penicillin skin test disinfection.Conclusions Saline has lower positive results than ethanol,and can better represent the result of penicillin skin test.