The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has released a draft report (pdf) on pressure ulcer risk assessment and prevention. The report, “Pressure Ulcer Risk Assessment and Prevention: A ...

Risk assessment is the first step in pressure ulcer prevention to identify patients most at risk, plan and implement interventions, and ensure resources are used appropriately. A risk assessment ...

A free self-assessment of programs to prevent pressure ulcers is available from the Greater New York Hospital Association, a trade association comprising hospitals in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut ...

When analyzing the relationship between soft-tissue injury and support surfaces for pressure ulcer treatment and prevention, caregivers must realize support surfaces deliver unwanted gradient pressure ...

October 7, 2008 — Editor's note: Presentations regarding pressure ulcers at the National Conference of Gerontological Nurse Practitioners (NCGNP), held from September 25 to 27 in St. Louis, Missouri, ...

This article, the sixth in an eight-part series on a new core education curriculum for pressure ulcer prevention and management, discusses incontinence assessment and care. Assessing the patient and ...

Recently, a 120-bed skilled nursing facility was cited by for pressure ulcer development. Records, as well as observations of the facility’s residents, identified a significant number of newly ...

Statement 1 People admitted to hospital or a care home with nursing have a pressure ulcer risk assessment within 6 hours of admission. Statement 2 People with a risk factor for developing pressure ...

The evidence assessed by the external assessment centre (EAC) included 7 studies; 3 were full text peer reviewed publications (Gefan et al. 2018; O'Brian et al. 2018; Raizman et al. 2018) and 4 were ...

The Greater New York Hospital Association, a trade association comprising hospitals in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Rhode Island, offers a free organizational assessment of a pressure ulcer ...