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Pressure ulcers: avoidable or otherwise?

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Pressure ulcers: avoidable or otherwise?

Cathie Bree-Aslan, Colin Iverson, Fiona Downie, Richard White

7 November 2014

Clinical experience and published evidence indicates that in all at-risk patients, there exists a complex combination of pathologies that contribute to the development of a pressure ulcer (PU). In some instances, these complex processes result in the development of an unavoidable PU (Berlowitz and Brienza,2007).

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