Background: Classification of pressure ulcers by staff nurses is a necessary practice. To perform accurate classification of these ulcers, education and training is needed. Most of this training is delivered through traditional teaching strategies but nowadays there is an increasing shift towards electronic methods. The effect of e-learning programs on users’ knowledge and skills, especially in...

This article reports on a project to update policy and practice in pressure-ulcer prevention in a district general hospital. A literature review was undertaken on pressure-ulcer prevention to identify the best methods for use in a district general hospital and to bring practice in line with current evidence. The literature review covered evidence-based tools for risk assessment, treatment proto...

Pressure ulcers frequently occur in patients with limited mobility, for example, people with advanced age and patients wearing casts or prostheses. Mobile information communication technologies can help implement ulcer care protocols and the monitoring of patients with high risk, thus preventing or improving these conditions. This article presents a mobile pressure ulcer monitoring platform (mU...

BACKGROUND There have been few systematic reviews and no meta-analyses of the clinical benefits of nutritional support in patients with, or at risk of developing, pressure ulcers. Therefore, this systematic review and meta-analysis was undertaken to address the impact of enteral nutritional support on pressure ulcer incidence and healing and a range of other clinically relevant outcome measures...

This short report describes how innovative research helped to standardise data collection for pressure ulcer prevalence in Australia. Adoption of this approach and the implementation of national guidelines in 2001 led to reduced pressure ulcer rates and to several state-wide prevalence surveys. New data collection tools, including the use of mobile phone technology for immediate centralised ana...

OBJECTIVE The study objective was to develop the definition and compile the risk factors for a new Nursing Diagnosis entitled "Risk for pressure ulcer". The process was guided using the research question, "What are the risk factors for development of a PU and what is its definition?" METHOD An integrative literature review was conducted of articles published in Portuguese, English or Spanish ...

BACKGROUND In long-term care (LTC) homes in the province of Ontario, implementation of the Minimum Data Set (MDS) assessment and The Braden Scale for predicting pressure ulcer risk were occurring simultaneously. The purpose of this study was, using available data sources, to develop a bedside MDS-based scale to identify individuals under care at various levels of risk for developing pressure ul...

The development of pressure ulcers remains a significant health problem in long-term care facilities (LTCFs). The national prevalence rate for pressure ulcers in long-term care is approximately 8.9% according to a federal report from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).1 Data from the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel have noted the incidence of pressure ulcers in LTCFs to r...

Background: New methods of defining an early grade of pressure ulcer could have great economic benefit to both patient and health service. Objectives: The objective of the study was to find out whether pressure ulcers can be assessed and classified by using computer image analysis of hue, saturation and intensity (HSI) in order to make a prognostic assessment of early skin damage. Aims: To dete...

This article describes a campaign to eliminate avoidable grade 2-4 pressure ulcers at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire Trust. The 100 Days Free strategy used traditional educational approaches along with ward-based power training and social media to engage staff and update practice. Root cause analysis has been vital in providing feedback to staff and identifying training needs.