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Pressure ulcer

Characteristics of COVID-19 patients who developed pressure injuries: a scoping review

The search strategy identified a total of 233 publications. After removing duplicates (n=108), a title and abstract screening of 125 articles was...

Perioperative pressure injury prevention: National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel root cause analysis toolkit 3.0

If the following conditions are met then the pressure injury may be an OR-acquired pressure injury: If a pressure injury is identified within 72...

Development, dissemination and evaluation of a smartphone-based app for pressure ulcer/injury prevention and treatment for use at the bedside

There were 62 responses from InterPIP App users across 14 countries, with 47 completed responses eligible for analysis. This represents 10–15% of...

Correlation between vitamin D levels and hard-to-heal wounds: a systematic review

This systematic review followed PRISMA guidelines and was conducted by one independent researcher. PubMed was used as the primary search database and...

Histological and clinical evaluation of wound healing in pressure ulcers: a novel animal model

Hard-to-heal PUs are a major healthcare problem, with a negative effect on patients, families and healthcare systems worldwide. Hard-to-heal PUs have...

Evaluation of infrared technology to detect category I and suspected deep tissue injury in hospitalised patients

A total of 68 participants (17 cases and 51 controls) were recruited from a sample of 73 patients, from which five participants were excluded; one due...