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In this article, we aimed to explore the literature to ascertain what research evidence exists in relation to the identification of pressure injuries in people with dark skin tones.

Pressure injuries development has been widely researched and documented; however, much of this work does not address ethnicity or race and assumes Caucasian‐ness. Thus, the perceptions of people with dark skin tones and the influence of skin pigmentation on identification and management of pressure injuries is under examined.

Literature review.

A comprehensive electronic database search was undertaken of PubMed, Cumulative Index for Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Cochrane and British Nursing Index (BNI) between 1990–July 2016. Alongside the electronic data, journals, books, papers from conferences, relevant national and international organisations and reference …