Incidence and prevalence data: can we ensure greater accuracy?
- 1 September 2002
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Mark Allen Group in Journal of Wound Care
- Vol. 11 (8) , 285-288
- https://doi.org/10.12968/jowc.2002.11.8.26429
Abstract
Practitioners in the UK will only know if they are meeting targets on pressure ulcer reduction if they provide valid and reliable prevalence and incidence data. But all too often, published data contain inconsistencies and can be misleading.Keywords
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