Pressure Ulcer PUSH Score and Traditional Nursing Assessment in Nursing Home Residents: Do They Correlate?

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 141-144

  George Saintilus, Erica ^a   Tommasulo, Barbara ^b   Cal, Charles E ^c   Hussain, Roshan ^c   Mathew, Nimmy ^c   Dlugacz, Yosef ^c   Pekmezaris, Renee ^d   Wolf Klein, Gisele ^a  

^a LONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Cold Spring Hills Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation ^*  (United States)

^c Krasnoff Quality Management Institute   (United States)

^d North Shore LIJ Health System ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Pressure ulcer; PUSH; wound care

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; DECUBITUS; HUMAN; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; NURSE; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PRESSURE ULCER SCALE FOR HEALING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 58849108883     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2008.10.014     Document Type: Article

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