BACKGROUND As skin assessment is critical to pressure ulcer prevention, it is essential that practitioners performing skin assessments understand individuals with dark skin tones may represent at-risk persons. In addition, visual cues commonly associated with the identification of stage I and suspected deep tissue injury (sDTI) pressure ulcers may not be sufficient in persons with darkly pigmen...

Pressure ulcers remain a major source of morbidity and mortality in Veterans with neurologic impairment. Management of pressure ulcers typically involves pressure relief over skin regions containing wounds, but this can lead to loss of mobility and independence when the wounds are located in regions that receive pressure during sitting. An innovative, iterative design process was undertaken to ...

Introduction Unrelieved pressure upon weight-bearing tissues can produce lesions, identified by their etiology as pressure ulcers (AHCPR, 1992). The prevalence of pressure ulcers for elderly nursing home residents has been estimated between 2.3% and 28%. (AHCPR, 1992; Brandeis, Ooi, Hossain, Morris, & Lipsitz, 1994; Smith, 1995; Young & Burns, 1981). The prevalence rate among other populations ...

Objectives: I) To examine the relationship between nurse and nurse aide staffing levels and pressure sores in nursing homes. 2) To test the hypothesis that fewer staff hours would be associated with lower quality of care and therefore a higher number of sores. 3) To determine whether this relationship differs by state, given variation in quality of care, regulation, and monitoring. Study Settin...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the incidence and identify risk factors for lower-extremity pressure ulcers in bedfast older adult patients. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING A 500-bed long-term-care facility in Japan. PATIENTS A total of 259 patients who were aged 65 years or older, confined to bed, and without lower-extremity pressure ulcers at enrollment participated in the study. MAIN ...