D.R. Thomas and G.A. Compton (eds.), Pressure Ulcers in the Aging Population: A Guide for Clinicians, Aging Medicine 1, DOI 10.1007/978-1-62703-700-6_2, © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 Abstract Understanding pressure ulcer epidemiology is central to understanding disease burden and to efforts to improve pressure ulcer care. A variety of measures are commonly used, including inci...

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM Instruments used to determine the risk of pressure ulcer development are universally applied to adult patients. These instruments do not differentiate between intensive and acute care patients. BACKGROUND Pressure ulcers contribute to negative outcomes such as increases in pain and discomfort, risk of infection, hospital length of stay and costs, and a decrease in qua...

OBJECTIVES To identify independent predictors for development of pressure ulcers in hospitalized patients and to develop a simple prediction rule for pressure ulcer development. DESIGN The Prevention and Pressure Ulcer Risk Score Evaluation (prePURSE) study is a prospective cohort study in which patients are followed up once a week until pressure ulcer occurrence, discharge from hospital, or ...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To investigate the effect of the implementation of a patient and family education programme for pressure ulcer prevention in an organisation for home care nursing on guideline adherence and on prevalence and severity of pressure ulcers and to examine the determining factors for the application of measures for pressure ulcer prevention. BACKGROUND Quality improvement progra...

Pressure ulcers are a significant iatrogenic cause of morbidity and mortality in the aged care population, with prevalence reported to be as high as 43% in some aged care facilities. The PRIME trial was a 15-month preand post-intervention study designed to investigate the effectiveness of an integrated pressure ulcer management system consisting of pressure ulcer risk assessment tools, Australi...

BACKGROUND Hazardous healthcare settings, for example acute care, need to focus more on preventing adverse events and preventive actions across the care delivery chain (i.e pre-hospital and emergency care, and further at the hospital ward) should be more studied. Pressure ulcer prevalence is still at unreasonably high levels, causing increased healthcare costs and suffering for patients. Recent...

BACKGROUND Pressure ulcer prevention is a critical patient safety indicator for acute care hospitals. An innovative pressure ulcer prevention care bundle targeting patient participation in their care was recently tested in a cluster randomised trial in eight Australian hospitals. Understanding nurses' perspectives of such an intervention is imperative when interpreting results and translating e...

Background: In intensive care units where there is high risk of development of pressure ulcer, it is very important for nurses to have a good level of knowledge about pressure ulcer and to reflect this knowledge in their caring practices. This study aims to identify knowledge of nurses working in intensive care units in relation to preventing pressure ulcer. Method: Target population of this st...

introduction: this study aims at determining and comparing braden and waterlow predictive tools as well as determining the cut off point of these scales. methods: this was a cross-sectional study which was carried out on 1864 patients admitted to imam hossein hospital in shahroud. the data collection instruments included braden and waterlow risk–assessment scales and a skin assessment tool. the...

AIMS To review systematically the interrater reliability of pressure ulcer classification systems to find out which classification should be used in daily practice. BACKGROUND Pressure ulcer classification systems are important tools in research and practice. They aim at providing accurate and precise communication, documentation and treatment decisions. Pressure ulcer classifications are cri...