TY - JOUR
T1 - National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel's updated pressure ulcer staging system.
AU - Black, Joyce
AU - Baharestani, Mona
AU - Cuddigan, Janet
AU - Dorner, Becky
AU - Edsberg, Laura
AU - Langemo, Diane
AU - Posthauer, Mary Ellen
AU - Ratliff, Catherine
AU - Taler, George
PY - 2007/4
Y1 - 2007/4
N2 - The National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel has updated the definition of a pressure ulcer and the stages of pressure ulcers based on current research and expert opinion solicited from hundreds of clinicians, educators, and researchers across the country. The amount of anatomical tissue loss described with each stage has not changed. New definitions were drafted to achieve accuracy, clarity, succinctness, clinical utility, and discrimination between and among the definitions of other pressure ulcer stages and other types of wounds. Deep tissue injury was also added as a distinct pressure ulcer in this updated system.
AB - The National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel has updated the definition of a pressure ulcer and the stages of pressure ulcers based on current research and expert opinion solicited from hundreds of clinicians, educators, and researchers across the country. The amount of anatomical tissue loss described with each stage has not changed. New definitions were drafted to achieve accuracy, clarity, succinctness, clinical utility, and discrimination between and among the definitions of other pressure ulcer stages and other types of wounds. Deep tissue injury was also added as a distinct pressure ulcer in this updated system.
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M3 - Review article
C2 - 17494455
AN - SCOPUS:34250339232
SN - 1053-816X
VL - 27
SP - 144-150, 156
JO - Urologic nursing : official journal of the American Urological Association Allied
JF - Urologic nursing : official journal of the American Urological Association Allied
IS - 2
ER -