Pressure ulcer incidence and risk factors in ventilated intensive care patients

Health Science Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 333-342

  Apostolopoulou, Eleni ^a   Tselebis, Athanasios ^b   Terzis, Konstantinos ^c   Kamarinou, Efstathia ^b   Lambropoulos, Ioannis ^b   Kalliakmanis, Andreas ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b SOTIRIA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c General Hospital of Halkida   (Greece)

^d SISMANOGLIO HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

ICU ventilated patients; Incidence density; Pressure ulcer; Prevention; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903761697     PISSN: 11087366     EISSN: 1791809X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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