Reliability of Pressure Ulcer Rates

Accuracy of Pressure Ulcer Events in US Nursing Home Ratings

Reporting rates were low for both short-stay (70.2% of 173,043 stage 2–4 pressure ulcer hospitalizations) and long-stay (59.7% of 137,315 stage 2–4 pressure ...

Accuracy of Pressure Ulcer Events in US Nursing Home Ratings

Results: Reporting rates were low for both short-stay (70.2% of 173,043 stage 2-4 pressure ulcer hospitalizations) and long-stay (59.7% of ...

5. How do we measure our pressure ulcer rates and practices?

Pressure ulcer rates are the most direct measure of how well you are succeeding in preventing pressure ulcers.

"Reliability of Pressure Ulcer Rates: How Precisely Can We ...

... reliability of hospital-acquired pressure ulcer rates and evaluate a standard signal-noise reliability measure as an indicator of precision of ...

A pressure ulcer and fall rate quality composite index for acute care ...

Reliability evidence for the hospital-acquired pressure ulcer measure includes a Kappa agreement of 0.56 for wound identification, indicating moderate ...

Reliability of Pressure Ulcer Rates: How Precisely Can We ...

Signal-to-Noise Ratio as a Reliability Indicator. Reliability is often quantified in terms of signal relative to noise, where signal is the ...

Effect of preventive care interventions on pressure ulcer rates in a ...

Pressure ulcer rates are persistently high despite years of research and practice policies focused on prevention. Prior research found crosssectional ...

3. What are the best practices in pressure ulcer prevention that we ...

Pressure ulcer risk assessment is a standardized and ongoing process with the goal of identifying patients at risk for the development of a pressure ulcer so ...

Pressure Injuries (Pressure Ulcers) and Wound Care

The fifth National Pressure Ulcer Prevalence Survey, conducted in 1999 among patients in acute care hospitals, showed an overall prevalence of ...

Older Adults - Reduce the rate of pressure ulcer-related hospital ...

Pressure ulcers are very painful, and they can lead to life-threatening infections. Most people hospitalized for pressure ulcers in the United States are ...

The prevalence and risk factors of pressure ulcers among residents ...

The average age of PU patients (55.7 years, with a standard deviation of 11) was higher compared to non-PU patients (mean age of 53.4 years, ...

Reporting accuracy of pressure injury categorisation in an acute ...

A systematic review of PI in hospitalised adults found a global pooled prevalence and incidence rate of 12.8% and 5.4 per 10,000 patient days, ...

A National Comparison of Rural/Urban Pressure Ulcer and Fall Rates

Despite recent decline in hospital acquired conditions (HACs), rates for pressure ulcers (PURs) and falls (FRs) remain at levels that ...

Pressure Ulcers Among Nursing Home Residents: United States, 2004

Pressure ulcer prevalence varied by age, sex, and length of time since admission to the nursing home, but not by race. ... Residents aged 64 years ...

Prevention and Management of Pressure Injuries - Wounds Canada

reduced pressure ulcer rates in acute and long-term care settings. ... portance of staff education programs focused on both accuracy of pressure ...

Prevalence of hospital-acquired pressure injuries in intensive care ...

Pressure ulcer prevalence in the Eastern Mediterranean Region has varied between 7% and 44.4% [9]. Both intrinsic factors (age, nutritional ...

A systematic review of interrater reliability of pressure ulcer ...

There is at present not enough evidence to recommend a specific pressure ulcer classification system for use in daily practice. Interrater reliability studies ...

Hospital-Acquired Pressure Ulcers: Risk Factors and Use of ...

Results Two hundred forty-seven new pressure ulcers occurred (5.7 per 1000 person-days). In multivariate analysis, the risk for pressure ulcer increased with ...

Long-Term Outcomes of Full-Thickness Pressure Ulcers

For all facilities, the average pressure ulcer prevalence rates (Stage I to Stage IV) were 8.4% upon admission and 6.2% for nosocomial only. Specifically, the ...

Value of hospital resources for effective pressure injury prevention

Risk-stratified follow-up in patients with Braden scores <15 dominated standard care. Prevention for all patients was cost-effective in >99% of probabilistic ...