Nutritional interventions for preventing and treating pressure ulcers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pressure ulcers affect approximately 10% of people in hospitals and older people are at highest risk. A correlation between inadequate nutritional intake and the development of pressure ulcers has been suggested by several studies, but the results have been inconsistent.

Objectives

To evaluate the effects of enteral and parenteral nutrition on the prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers.

Search methods

In March 2014, for this first update, we searched The Cochrane Wounds Group Specialised Trials Register, the Cochrane Central register of Controlled Trials (The Cochrane Library), the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE) (The Cochrane Library), the Health Technology Assessment Database (HTA) (The Cochrane Library), the Cochrane Methodology R

SUBMITTER: Langer G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9736772 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature