Using the Braden and the Norton scale the pressure ulcer risk was scored twice weekly during a four-week period. Clinical assessment was monitored daily.

A review of pressure-ulcer risk assessment scales used with individuals with SCI was systematically conducted. To be included, measures had to have been assessed in at least one study published in ...

A number of host factors may contribute to pressure ulcer development including immobility, incontinence, nutritional status, circulatory factors, and neurologic disease.

Moving a patient relieves bedsores. It sounds obvious today, but it took the work of an innovative nurse in the 1950s working with a group of elderly patients to realise it. Bedsores, also known as ...

Risk assessment Formal pressure ulcer risk assessment involves the use of a tool that assists in identifying those patients likely to develop a pressure ulcer. Although this is now an established ...