Table 1.

Patient characteristics^*

	Healed group	Deteriorated group
No. of patients	19	11
No. of ulcers	20	11
Age (years)	83 (62–96)	80 (68–96)
No. of women (%)	8 (42·1)	6 (54·5)
Braden score	13 (7–20)	10 (6–16)
Diagnosis (%)
Cerebrovascular disease	12 (72·7)	8 (72·7)
Diabetes mellitus	1 (5·3)	2 (18·2)
Spinal cord injury	0 (0·0)	1 (9·1)
Dementia	3 (15·8)	0 (0·0)
Low back pain	2 (10·5)	0 (0·0)
Pneumonia	1 (5·3)	0 (0·0)

^* Values represent median with range.