Black Nursing Home Residents More Likely to Develop Pressure Wounds

Researchers the University of Iowa have found that black nursing home residents are more likely than their white counterparts to develop pressure wounds.

The researchers also determined that both blacks and whites are more likely to develop pressure wounds at nursing homes that have a higher percentage of black residents than at facilities with almost all white residents. They noted that this could be due to multiple factors, including higher turnover and lower resident-to-staff ratios in facilities that have more black residents.

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