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.