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The relationship between pressure ulcer incidence and buttock-seat cushion interface pressure in at-risk elderly wheelchair users  David M. Brienza, PhD,

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1 The relationship between pressure ulcer incidence and buttock-seat cushion interface pressure in at-risk elderly wheelchair users  David M. Brienza, PhD, Patricia E. Karg, MS, Mary Jo Geyer, MS, Sheryl Kelsey, PhD, Elaine Trefler, MEd  Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation  Volume 82, Issue 4, Pages (April 2001) DOI: /apmr Copyright © 2001 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Terms and Conditions

2 Fig. 1 Comparison of distribution for (A) peak pressure and (B) average of the highest 4 pressures between pressure ulcer (PU) and no pressure ulcer (No-PU) outcome groups. The difference in mean was significant (p ≤.01) in both cases. Box plots show the minimum, maximum, upper quartile, lower quartile, mean (grey line), and median (solid line) for each data set. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation  , DOI: ( /apmr ) Copyright © 2001 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Terms and Conditions


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