Pressure Ulcers in Elderly Hip Fracture Patients Across the Continuum of Care

Mona Baumgarten,David J. Margolis,Denise Orwig,Michelle Shardell,William G. Hawkes,Patricia Langenberg,Mary H. Palmer,Patricia S. Jones,Patrick F. McArdle,Robert Sterling,Bruce Kinosian,Shayna E. Rich,Janice Sowinski,Jay Magaziner

Pressure Ulcers in Elderly Hip Fracture Patients Across the Continuum of Care

2009

Mona Baumgarten
David J. Margolis
Denise Orwig
Michelle Shardell
William G. Hawkes
Patricia Langenberg
Mary H. Palmer
Patricia S. Jones
Patrick F. McArdle
Robert Sterling
Bruce Kinosian
Shayna E. Rich
Janice Sowinski
Jay Magaziner

Objectives The aim of this study was to identify care settings associated with increased pressure ulcer risk among elderly hip fracture patients in the post-fracture period.

Keywords:

Hip fracture
Pressure ulcer risk
Diabetes mellitus
Physical therapy
Medicine
care setting
Intensive care medicine
continuum of care

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