Preventing Pressure Ulcers: A Systematic Review

By Bruce H. Thiers. 2007

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Subfields: Occupational Therapy, Rehabilitation, Surgery

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Citations in the corpus

• Guidelines for management of ischaemic stroke and transient ischaemic attack 2008. (2008, background): “In patients at high risk of developing pressure ulcers, use of support surfaces, frequent repositioning, optimizing nutritional status, and moisturizing sacral skin are appropriate preventive strategies [457].”
• Human Skin Wounds: A Major and Snowballing Threat to Public Health and the Economy (2009, background): “5 million pressure ulcers are treated in the United States in acute care facilities alone.(35) According to data from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the number of hospitalized patients with pressure sores increased by 63% during the period 19”