On-Admission Pressure Ulcer Prediction Using the Nursing Needs Score

Yoko Nakamura   ^{1 *} , MD ;   A. Ammar Ghaibeh   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Yoko Setoguchi   ¹ , RN,MBA ;   Kazue Mitani   ² , RN, CWOCN ;   Yoshiro Abe   ³ , MD, PhD ;   Ichiro Hashimoto   ³ , MD, PhD ;   Hiroki Moriguchi   ¹ , MD, PhD

¹ Department of Medical Informatics, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

² Department of Nursing, Tokushima University Hospital, Tokushima, Japan

³ Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

*these authors contributed equally