Establecer la fiabilidad (consistencia interna y concordancia inter-observadores) de la version en español del Resultado "Conocimientos: recursos sanitarios" de la Clasificación de Resultados Enfermeros, en una muestra enfermeras de hospital y de atención primaria.

To study the reliability (inter-observer agreement and internal consistency) of the Spanish version of the Nursing Outcome "Knowledge: Health Resources" and determine the differences in reliability when used by nurses in two settings: community care and hospital care.

This article is a report on a review of the effect of coping strategies on subjective burden in informal caregivers of older adults.

Personajes historicos que han padecido heridas crónicas a lo largo de la historia.

Throughout the course of human history many people have been affected by the presence of chronic wounds. Millions of anonymous people have suffered bed sores, varicose ulcers, arterial ulcers or neuropathic ulcers. But there have been some famous people who, from time to time, remove these lesions from their cloak of invisibility In our day and age, every time a famous person suffers from these wounds, we observe how the means of communication publicize this health problem...

The aging process and environmental aggressions will leave their imprints on the state of a person's skin, possibly compromising some of its functions. Age is a risk factor for the development of bed sores, but not the only factor nor the most important one; therefore, we need to develop prevention programs directed to all patients who spend long periods of time sedentary or bedridden...

This paper is a report of a study to determine: (a) Spanish nurses' level of knowledge of existing guidelines for pressure ulcer prevention and treatment, (b) the level of implementation of this knowledge in clinical practice and (c) the professional and educational factors that influence knowledge and practice.

This paper reports a systematic review conducted to determine the effectiveness of the use of risk assessment scales for pressure ulcer prevention in clinical practice, degree of validation of risk assessment scales, and effectiveness of risk assessment scales as indicators of risk of developing a pressure ulcer.