The Dutch pressure sore assessment score or the Norton scale for identifying at-risk nursing home patients?

Age and Ageing

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 63-68

  Van Marum, Rob J ^a,b   Ooms, Marcel E ^a   Ribbe, Miel W ^a   Van Eijk, Jacques Th ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Nursing Home Waerthove   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aged; Dutch (CBO) pressure sore assessment score; Norton scale; Nursing home; Pressure sore; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; DECUBITUS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NETHERLANDS; NURSING HOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; TIME;

EID: 0033984597     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/29.1.63     Document Type: Article

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