Survey Results from the Philippines: NPUAP Changes in Pressure Injury Terminology and Definitions

Elizabeth A Ayello1, Barbara Delmore, Hiske Smart

  • 1Elizabeth A. Ayello, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, CWON, ETN, MAPWCA, FAAN, is Faculty, Excelsior College School of Nursing, Albany, New York, President, Ayello Harris & Associates, Inc, Copake, New York, and Clinical Editor, Advances in Skin & Wound Care, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Barbara Delmore, PhD, RN, CWCN, MAPWCA, IIWCC-NYU, is Senior Nurse Scientist, Center for Innovations in the Advancement of Care, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York. Hiske Smart, MA Nursing Science (PU for CHE), Hons B. Soc Sc. Nursing Science (UFS), RN, is a Clinical Nurse Specialist, Wound Care and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Unit, King Hamad University Hospital, Busaiteen, Bahrain. R. Gary Sibbald, BSc, MD, DSc (Hons), MEd, FRCPC (Med Derm), FAAD, MAPWCA, is Professor of Medicine and Public Health and Director, International Interprofessional Wound Care Course and Masters of Science in Community Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada; and Clinical Editor, Advances in Skin & Wound Care, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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