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How and why to do pressure ulcer risk assessment

Elizabeth A Ayello1, Barbara Braden

  • 1The John A Hartford Institute of Geriatric Nursing, Division of Nursing, New York University, New York, NY, USA.

Advances in Skin & Wound Care
|June 11, 2002
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