JAMDA
Volume 10, Issue 2 , Pages 141-144 , February 2009

Pressure Ulcer PUSH Score and Traditional Nursing Assessment in Nursing Home Residents: Do They Correlate?

  • Erica George-Saintilus, MD

      Affiliations

    • Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to Erica George-Saintilus, MD, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, 270-05 76th Avenue, New Hyde Park, NY 11040
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  • Barbara Tommasulo, MD

      Affiliations

    • Cold Spring Hills Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation, Woodbury, NY
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  • Charles E. Cal, MBA, MS, RN, CPHQ

      Affiliations

    • Krasnoff Quality Management Institute, Great Neck, NY
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  • Roshan Hussain, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Krasnoff Quality Management Institute, Great Neck, NY
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  • Nimmy Mathew, MA

      Affiliations

    • Krasnoff Quality Management Institute, Great Neck, NY
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  • Yosef Dlugacz, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Krasnoff Quality Management Institute, Great Neck, NY
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  • Renee Pekmezaris, PhD

      Affiliations

    • North Shore-LIJ Health System, Great Neck, NY
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  • Gisele Wolf-Klein, MD

      Affiliations

    • Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY

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 None of the authors have any financial interest in the study, nor do they have any conflict of interest.

PII: S1525-8610(08)00416-7

doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2008.10.014

JAMDA
Volume 10, Issue 2 , Pages 141-144 , February 2009

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