Serum albumin level is a limited nutritional marker for predicting wound healing in patients with pressure ulcer: Two multicenter prospective cohort studies

Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 738-745

  Iizaka, Shinji ^a   Sanada, Hiromi ^a   Matsui, Yuko ^b   Furue, Masutaka ^c   Tachibana, Takao ^d   Nakayama, Takeo ^e   Sugama, Junko ^b   Furuta, Katsunori ^f   Tachi, Masahiro ^g   Tokunaga, Keiko ^h   Miyachi, Yoshiki ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL CENTER FOR GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^g TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^h MIYAGI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Albumin; Nursing; Nutrition assessment; Pressure ulcer; Serum marker; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECUBITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ULCER HEALING; WOUND HEALING;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PRESSURE ULCER; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERUM ALBUMIN; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 82255162903     PISSN: 02615614     EISSN: 15321983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2011.07.003     Document Type: Article

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