MATERIALS AND METHOD

The study was launched after permission was granted by the Republic of Turkey, Health Sciences University, Erzurum Region Education and Research Hospital, dated February 11, 2018 and numbered 37732058-514.10. Included in the study were all patients over the age of 18 years receiving palliative care in hospital, and with a decubitus ulcer. Decubitus wound samples of the patients were taken within the first 24 hours of admission to the hospital. All decubitus wounds were washed with sterile saline and a sample was taken using a sterile cotton swab from the deepest and the most solid part of the wounds. Patients using local antibiotics for wound treatment were excluded from the study, as were patients with a positive urine, catheter or tracheal aspirate culture.