A quality improvement initiative across 21 hospitals incorporated a multidisciplinary approach, breakthrough collaborative methods, evidence-based improvement methods and care guidelines, front-line rapid improvement cycles, consistent process-of-care documentation, and real-time incidence data. Statistically significant decreases in both all-stage and stages III, IV, and unstageable hospital-a...

This quasi-experimental research design study aimed to determine the effects of a community-based discharge-planning model for continuing pressure ulcer care on the nutritional status, wound-healing, and infection rates in one hundred elderly patients at a tertiary hospital in Thailand. The patients were simple randomized into two groups; namely, the control group receiving regular care and the...

BACKGROUND Malignant degeneration in any chronic wound is termed a Marjolin's ulcer (MU). The overall metastatic rate of MU is approximately 27.5%. However, the prognosis of MU specific to pressure sores is poor, with a reported metastatic rate of 61%. This is due to insidious, asymptomatic malignant degeneration, a lack of healthcare provider awareness, and, ultimately, delayed management. C...

This article examines the causes of pressure ulcers and provides an overview of the best advice available in preventing them in the clinical setting. This should enable nurses to provide more effective interventions for preventing patients from developing pressure ulcers.

: Critically ill children require serious consideration whether in medical, surgicalor trauma- related fields. Pressure ulcer are a challenging problem the care of medically complexchildren. Nurses dedicated to prevention and management pressure injuries