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Health care professionals have long recognised pressure sores as a problem (1, 2, 3). Attention has focused on the monetary cost and scale of the issue (4) in terms of pain caused and competition for finite resources (5). The Health of the Nation consultative document (6) estimated that 6.7 per cent of the adult hospital population are affected, costing the NHS at least 60 million pounds a year. Many consider these sores preventable, and believe the deployment of resources in the health service should focus on prevention instead of treatment (7).
长期以来，医疗保健专业人员一直将压疮视为一个问题（参考文献1、2、3）。人们的注意力集中在该问题的金钱成本和规模上（参考文献4），包括其所造成的疼痛以及对有限资源的竞争（参考文献5）。《国家健康》咨询文件（参考文献6）估计，成年住院患者中有6.7%受到影响，每年给国民医疗服务体系造成至少6000万英镑的损失。许多人认为这些溃疡是可以预防的，并认为医疗服务资源的配置应侧重于预防而非治疗（参考文献7）。
