Sustainable pressure injury prevention.
prospective_cohort · Level II
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 37286297.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1136/bmjoq-2022-002248 and PMC identifier 10255001.
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Abstract
The quality department used adaptive leadership and the plan-do-study-act cycle to decrease pressure injury (PI) rates. After identifying gaps, the pressure injury prevention bundle was developed and implemented to bring evidence-based nursing practice to frontline nurses. Organisational rates of PI was followed for 4 years (2019-2022) and a smaller subset of 88 patients were followed in the prospective arm. Using statistical analysis, the decrease in PI rates (90%) and severity is significant (p<0.5) and sustained compared with the year prior to interventions.
Medical subject headings
- Pressure Ulcer