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Incidence of pressure-sores in the Greater Glasgow Health Board area
J C Barbenel1, M M Jordan, S M Nicol
1Bioengineering Unit, University of Strathclyde, Rottenrow, Glasgow.
Lancet (London, England)
|September 10, 1977
Abstract:
A survey was made by questionnaire of the prevalence and severity of pressure-sores on a given date among all hospital inpatients and all patients visited by a district nurse within the Greater Glasgow Health Board area. 8.8% of patients had a pressure-sore. Those aged 70 and over accounted for 70% of the patients with sores. Chairfast patients consistently had a higher pressure-sore frequency than bedfast patients of a similar degree of helplessness.