Skin status for predicting pressure ulcer development: A systematic review and meta-analyses

People with altered skin status are conventionally considered to have a higher risk of developing new ulcers. However, the evidence underpinning this potentially prognostic relationship is unclear.To systematically review the evidence for the prognostic association of skin status with pressure ulcer risk.We performed a comprehensive electronic database search in February 2017 to identify longitudinal studies that considered skin status in...