Pressure sore prevalence: a national survey
- 1 March 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Clinical Nursing
- Vol. 8 (2) , 170-179
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2702.1999.00221.x
Abstract
• A cross‐sectional nation‐wide sample was used to determine the point prevalence and grading of pressure sores in patients in all hospitals in Iceland (22 hospitals). • The pressure sore prevalence ...Keywords
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