Relationship between type of treatment and degree of wound healing among institutionalized geriatric patients with stage II pressure ulcers

Care Management Journals

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 213-218

  Yastrub, Diane J ^a  

^a Ozanam Hall Nursing Home and Marquis Care Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced practice nursing; Antibiotic; Geriatric practice; Long term care; Polymeric; Pressure ulcer; PUSH tool

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; GERIATRIC CARE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LONG TERM CARE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; POPULATION RESEARCH; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RATING SCALE; SAMPLING; SKIN ULCER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GERIATRIC NURSING; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK CITY; PRESSURE ULCER; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 26944455590     PISSN: 15210987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1891/cmaj.2004.5.4.213     Document Type: Article

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