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Prevalence
Cross-sectional study
Wound prevalence in community care settings in Ireland ranges from 2.7% in prisons to 33.5% in intellectual disability services, with pressure ulcers, leg ulcers, self-inflicted abrasions and surgical wounds the most common
  1. Michael Clark
  1. Correspondence to Michael Clark
    Welsh Wound Network, 210 Capella House, Cardiff CF10 4RE, UK; michael.clark21{at}btopenworld.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebn1044

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    Commentary on: McDermott-Scales L, Cowman S, Gethin G. Prevalence of wounds in a community care setting in Ireland. J Wound Care 2009;18:405–17.OpenUrlPubMed

    McDermott-Scales and colleagues report a communitybased point prevalence survey of chronic and acute wounds conducted in 2007 within an unspecified geographical area in Ireland. This is one of a growing number of population-based wound prevalence surveys,1 ,2 although it may be unique in that it includes only community care locations rather than a mix of acute and community services. The study provides data obtained within addiction and prison services previously unreported in other surveys.

    The survey was based on reporting of wounds by 148 nurses invited to participate (responses from …

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