Preoperative Albumin Alone is Not a Predictor of 30-Day Outcomes in Pressure Ulcer Patients A Matched Propensity-Score Analysis of the 2006-2011 NSQIP Datasets

摘要

Background While there has been a great deal of literature describing the relationship between nutritional status and development of pressure ulcers, statistically rigorous studies analyzing the relationship between hypoalbuminemia and outcomes are lacking.