Management and treatment of decubital ulcers of an elderly population in the assisted sanitary residence of Futura-Viagrande (Catania, Sicily, Italy)

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 332-334

  Santangelo, Antonino ^a,b   Testaì, Manuela ^a   Ossino, Mosè Cirino ^a,b   Barbagallo, Patrizia ^b   Crisafulli, Cristiano ^b   Muscarà, Giuliana ^b   Tomarchio, Marcello ^a,c   Maugeri, Domenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b RSA Residence Futura   (Italy)

^c SISIFO Consorzio Cooperative Sociali   (Italy)

Author keywords

Assisted sanitary residences; Decubital ulcer; Treatment of decubitus

Indexed keywords

POLYURETHAN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DECUBITUS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; HYDROGEL; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; PRESSURE ULCER; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SICILY;

EID: 62949187534     PISSN: 01674943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.archger.2008.02.017     Document Type: Article

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