Use of technology for self-care in surgical wound infection surveillance: integrative review.

Objectives: to synthesize knowledge about technology for self-care in surgical wound infection surveillance.

Methods: integrative review conducted in CINAHL, Embase, LILACS, PubMed, Scopus and Web of Science databases with the descriptors "surgical wound infection" and "self-care", in addition to manual search in the references of the included studies. The selection and evaluation of the methodological quality of the studies and data collection were performed by two independent reviewers; conflicts were resolved by a third reviewer.