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Pressure sore prevalence: a national survey
Author(s) -
THORODDSEN ÁSTA
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of clinical nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.94
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1365-2702
pISSN - 0962-1067
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2702.1999.00221.x
Subject(s) - pressure sores , medicine , cross sectional study , grading (engineering) , surgery , civil engineering , pathology , engineering
• 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 was 8.9% ( n = 57 patients), 7.12% for women ( n = 26) and 11.2% for men ( n = 31); the mean age for both sexes with pressure sores was 78.4 years. • Grade I sores were most frequently identified and Grade IV the least. Eighty‐five per cent of pressure sores were located below the waist. • `No dressings' and occlusive dressings were the treatment of choice for pressure sores. • Results from this study are important for international comparisons.