PMID- 17141782
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20070406
LR  - 20161124
IS  - 0020-7489 (Print)
IS  - 0020-7489 (Linking)
VI  - 44
IP  - 2
DP  - 2007 Feb
TI  - Risk assessment scales for pressure ulcers: a methodological review.
PG  - 285-96
AB  - Much is written about risk-assessment scales (RASs) for pressure ulcers (PU) and 
      their properties demonstrating that they are of limited value. Less is known 
      about the reasons for these limitations and the scope for improvement. This 
      review examines issues such as structure and scoring for the Norton, Waterlow and 
      Braden scales, showing that the equal-weighting technique behind the current RASs 
      is too simplistic and leads to limitations. It concludes that properly trained, 
      experienced nurses should conduct PU risk assessments, whilst more robust 
      data-driven RASs should be developed using the differential weighting scoring 
      method together with advanced statistical techniques.
FAU - Papanikolaou, Panos
AU  - Papanikolaou P
AD  - Nursing, Health and Social Care Research Centre, School of Nursing and Midwifery 
      Studies, University of Cardiff, 35-43 Newport Road, Cardiff CF24 0AB, UK. 
      papanikolaoup@cf.ac.uk
FAU - Lyne, Patricia
AU  - Lyne P
FAU - Anthony, Denis
AU  - Anthony D
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Review
DEP - 20061204
PL  - England
TA  - Int J Nurs Stud
JT  - International journal of nursing studies
JID - 0400675
SB  - IM
MH  - Data Interpretation, Statistical
MH  - Discriminant Analysis
MH  - Humans
MH  - Logistic Models
MH  - Multivariate Analysis
MH  - Nursing Assessment/*methods/standards
MH  - Nursing Evaluation Research
MH  - Practice Guidelines as Topic
MH  - Predictive Value of Tests
MH  - Pressure Ulcer/classification/diagnosis/epidemiology/*nursing
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - Proportional Hazards Models
MH  - Prospective Studies
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - Research Design
MH  - Retrospective Studies
MH  - Risk Assessment/*methods/standards
MH  - Risk Factors
MH  - Sensitivity and Specificity
MH  - Severity of Illness Index
MH  - United Kingdom/epidemiology
RF  - 63
EDAT- 2006/12/05 09:00
MHDA- 2007/04/07 09:00
CRDT- 2006/12/05 09:00
PHST- 2005/01/17 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2005/12/19 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2006/01/10 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2006/12/05 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2007/04/07 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2006/12/05 09:00 [entrez]
AID - S0020-7489(06)00300-2 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2006.01.015 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Int J Nurs Stud. 2007 Feb;44(2):285-96. doi: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2006.01.015. Epub 
      2006 Dec 4.