Pressure injuries (also called pressure ulcers, although skin ulceration does not always occur) remain a major problem in health care. Healthcare professionals have clinical guidelines that make recommendations for prevention; however, these recommendations are often …
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The need for tools to measure the knowledge about pressure injury prevention arises both in research studies and in the evaluation of the efficacy of training programmes. Numerous questionnaires and scales have been developed for …
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The immediate effects of climate change such as rising global temperatures or extreme meteorological events are widely visible, but other effects, such as the impact of climate change on health, are less well known. In …
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Pressure ulcers are an adverse event recognised in paediatric units and specifically in neonatal units. Within the research line on Pressure ulcers and chronic wounds, Pablo García-Molina, during his PhD supervised by Dr. Francisco P. …
Leer más »A new scale for assessing the risk of pressure ulcers in neonates
The control of chronic pain is a major challenge for patients and health care professionals. Due to this fact, a recent study (the paiNoc project) decided to culturally adapt the Nursing Outcomes Classification outcome ‘‘Pain …
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More results from the research group CuiDsalud in the topic Care and Family caregivers. Several researchers have developed and validated a scale to measure caregiving dedication regarding activities of daily living in caregivers of dependent …
Leer más »DeCuida Scale: measurement of family caregivers dedication
