The Abruzzese Scale is based on the Norton and Gosnell scales. Domains measured include: 1) General Health 2) Mental Status 3) Activity 4) Mobility 5) Continence 6) Nutrition [...]

An assessment tool for determining a patient’s risk level for incurring skin breakdown. It has been tested in both acute care and long-term-care settings. Items were developed [...]

Developed to identify individuals living in extended care and over the age of 65 who were at risk for developing a pressure ulcer Patients are evaluated on five [...]

The Norton Pressure Ulcer Risk Scale was the first pressure ulcer risk assessment developed and was intended for use with a geriatric hospital population. It is a clinician-administered [...]

The Skin Management Needs Assessment Checklist (SMNAC) is a self-report subscale extracted from the Needs Assessment Checklist (NAC) The SMNAC is developed to be a post discharge measure [...]

Developed as a measure of the risk for pressure ulcer development for individuals with SCI during the acute phase of injury (within 30 days of admission). The SCIPUS [...]

Developed as a measure of the risk for pressure ulcer development for individuals with SCI who are in a rehabilitation centre (i.e., after acute, and being community/outpatient/at home). [...]

Used to describe the severity of pressure ulcers Derived from previously published UK scales developed by a consensus panel of national tissue viability experts This observational scale has [...]

Used to assess the risk for pressure ulcer development Created to provide better sensitivity and specificity than the Norton by increasing the number of items used Every patient [...]