Hospital-acquired pressure ulcers: Risk factors and use of preventive devices

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 158, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 1940-1945

  Perneger, Thomas V ^a   Héliot, Céliane ^b   Raë, Anne Claire ^b   Borst, François ^b   Gaspoz, Jean Michel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; DECUBITUS; DEVICE; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HOSPITAL BED; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRAVENOUS FEEDING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SURGERY; SWITZERLAND; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENTS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESSURE ULCER; RISK; RISK FACTORS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0032575911     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.158.17.1940     Document Type: Article

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