Harnessing food and drink to prevent pressure ulcers
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Harnessing food and drink to prevent pressure ulcers

Erin Dean Health journalist

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Almost one in ten (9%) hospital inpatients had one or more pressure ulcers during a major audit involving 10,000 people in England in 2019.

Nursing Standard. 36, 3, 51-53. doi: 10.7748/ns.36.3.51.s22

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