Nursing Home Cases Involving Pressure Sores

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Nursing Home Cases Involving Pressure Sores

Nursing home cases typically involve abuse or neglect.  Abuse cases involve injurious harm to long-term residents by caregivers or fellow patients.  Neglect cases typically arise out of the failure to monitor and treat medical conditions, failure to institute proper fall precautions, elopement (i.e., when patients with dementia wander), and failure to maintain skin integrity.  We have see