Pressure ulcers: Validation of two risk assessment scales

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 373-382

  Defloor, Tom ^a,b   Grypdonck, Maria F H ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Braden scale; Norton scale; Nursing; Pressure ulcer; Risk assessment; Validity

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BED; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECUBITUS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE COURSE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NURSE; PATIENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT POSITIONING; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; RANDOMIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SENESCENCE; SENSATION; SKIN; TIME; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PRESSURE ULCER; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 15044362478     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2004.01058.x     Document Type: Article

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