Our goal in this study is to find risk factors associated with Pressure Ulcers (PUs) and to develop predictive models of PU incidence. We focus on Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients since patients admitted to ICU have shown higher incidence of PUs. The most common PU incidence assessment tool is the Braden scale, which sums up six subscale features. In an ICU setting it's known drawbacks includ...

Objective To compare the predictive validity of three pressure ulcer risk scales: the Braden scale; the Song and Choi scale; and the Cubbin and Jackson scale and to choose the most appropriate calculator for predicting pressure ulcer risk in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) in South Korea. Design Non‐experimental prospective study. Setting A 1,053 bed tertiary educational hospital in Sou...

OBJECTIVES The aims of this study were to examine and compare the predictive validity of 4 risk assessment scales used for the prediction of pressure ulcer (PrU) development and to identify risk factors. DESIGN Cross-sectional descriptive study. SETTING A general hospital in Sweden. PARTICIPANTS Patients (all aged ≥18 years) admitted to medical, surgical, orthopedic, oncology, and rehabil...

This study was to compare the validity of three pressure ulcer risk tools: Cubbin and Jackson, Braden, and Douglas scales. Data were collected three times per week from 48 to 72 h after admission based on the three pressure ulcer risk assessment scales and skin assessment tool developed by the Panel for the Prediction and Prevention of Pressure Ulcers (1994) from 112 intensive care unit (ICU) p...

Pressure ulcers remain a major health issue for critical patients. The purpose of this descriptive and exploratory study was to analyze the risk factors for the development of pressure ulcers in patients hospitalized at an intensive care unit of a university hospital. Patients were assessed through the Braden scale to determine the risk for the development of pressure ulcers and to identify ind...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the psychometric properties of the Indonesian version of the Dutch National Prevalence Measurement of Care Problems. The questionnaire consists of 6 parts: patient characteristics (including pressure ulcer [PrU] risk; assessed by the Braden Scale) and care dependency (assessed by the Care Dependency Scale [CDS]), PrU categorization, prevention, treatment, and structural qu...

Pressure ulcers (PU) may increase the incidence of hospital complications, and one should prevent this damage. The Braden Scale stands out as a tool to assess the risk of PU. The study aimed to identify changes in the score of the Braden subscales are associated with the risk of developing PCU. Logistic regression was used in a retrospective cohort study conducted in Hospital de Clínicas de Por...