Risk factors for pressure ulcers in acute care hospitals

Wound Repair and Regeneration

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 11-18

  Fogerty, Mary D ^a   Abumrad, Naji N ^a   Nanney, Lillian ^a   Arbogast, Patrick G ^a   Poulose, Benjamin ^a   Barbul, Adrian ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECUBITUS; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ETHICS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESSURE ULCER; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 38349103937     PISSN: 10671927     EISSN: 1524475X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-475X.2007.00327.x     Document Type: Article

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