title: A pressure sore risk scale for use with older people.
abstract: Identifying patients at risk can reduce the costs of preventing and treating pressure sores. Many accepted risk-assessment scales tend to over-predict risk.
authors.forename: H C
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: McCormack
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D015577:Geriatric Assessment; D006801:Humans; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D003668:Pressure Ulcer / Q000209:etiology / Q000451:nursing*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012307:Risk Factors; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity