Nurses Under Pressure: Do Risk Assessment Tools Help Prevent Pressure Ulcers?

Originally posted on Evidently Cochrane:

Tools to help assess a patient’s risk of developing a pressure ulcer have been in use for half a century, but do they actually result in fewer pressure ulcers, or do they take up nurses’ time which could be better spent with the patient? An updated Cochrane review gives us the current state of the evidence.

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