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The incidence of pressure sores within a National Health Service Trust hospital during 1991
Author(s) -
Clark Michael,
Watts Sally
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1994.20010033.x
Subject(s) - pressure sores , incidence (geometry) , medicine , service (business) , nursing , business , surgery , physics , optics , marketing
The prevalence of pressure sores has been frequently reported However, such measures fail to identify how many patients develop sores, while longitudinal changes in prevalence rates are difficult to interpret This paper provides the first report of the incidence of pressure sores across the population of a single NHS Trust hospital During 1991, 360 patients developed sores, an incidence of 4 03 patients per 100 admissions Within orthopaedic wards, the incidence was higher, with 10 3 patients per 100 admissions developing sores