UK, USA and Canada: how do their pressure ulcer prevalence and incidence data compare?
- 1 January 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Mark Allen Group in Journal of Wound Care
- Vol. 10 (1) , 530-535
- https://doi.org/10.12968/jowc.2001.10.1.26039
Abstract
Although prevalence and incidence figures for pressure ulcers vary widely across health-care settings, common trends can be identified. This review examines data from three countries.This publication has 37 references indexed in Scilit:
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