Conclusions are uncertain

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Thomas A Ball, specialty registrar in trauma and orthopaedics1

¹Royal Devon and Exeter Foundation Trust, Exeter EX2 5DW

tomball{at}doctors.org.uk

In their meta-analysis on sutures v staples for skin closure in orthopaedic surgery, Smith and colleagues give the relative risk of wound infection, rather than the absolute risk reduction, which is more relevant …