Abstract
The aim of this review of literature is to clarify necessary evidence for creating stoma appliance selection standards. 4,040 literatures were hit as a result of searches conducted on the Ovid versions of MEDLINE, CINAHL, ＆ JMED plus and others from 1980 to July 2007 by using key words “ostomy”,“ostomate”,“stomas”, and “stoma equipment” or “ostomy appliance” or “ostomy equipment supplies”. 48 literatures that fit the purpose of this study were manually selected from these searched documents. 11 research reports, 11 case reports, 1 review of literature, 1 explanation and 24 meeting minutes were adopted as appropriate references for the selection criterion of the ostomy appliance. Also the content of literatures were 7 comparison researches, 10 ostomy appliance use investigations, 27 case reports of equipment selection, 1 suggestion of equipment selection and 3 miscellaneous. There were many literatures based on expert opinions but the evidence was level low. The literature suggested that Ostomy appliances with convexity are useful to prevent the leakage of effluent from the stoma.
