Evaluation by patients and caregivers of the effectiveness of a brochure developed to prevent pressure ulcers.

Introduction: We evaluated the opinions and recommendations of patients at moderate to high risk for pressure ulceration and their caregivers about discharge education and asked them to evaluate an educational brochure about pressure ulcer prevention.

Subjects And Setting: The study group comprised 33 hospital patients and 33 caregivers. Approximately half of the subjects (54.