Ensuring healthy skin as part of wound prevention: an integrative review of health professionals' actions
Author(s) -
Kate Kennedy,
Kay Price,
Tabatha Rando,
Jo Boylan,
Anthony Dyer
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of wound care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.52
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 2052-2916
pISSN - 0969-0700
DOI - 10.12968/jowc.2018.27.11.707
Subject(s) - medicine , guideline , grey literature , wound care , health care , systematic review , medline , family medicine , nursing , health professionals , skin care , best practice , surgery , pathology , management , political science , law , economics , economic growth
To provide a synthesis of the best available, recent primary or secondary research evidence on early preventative activities taken to increase skin health, and reduce the incidence of facility-acquired skin tears and pressure ulcers (PUs) in community, residential and health-care institutions.
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