Collaborative Clinical Quality Improvement for Pressure Ulcers in Nursing Homes

Autor:	Rachel Nelson, David R. Gifford, Judith A. Ryan, Jeff West, Susan Hausmann, Nancy Bergstrom, Paul McGann, Joanne Lynn
Rok vydání:	2007
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Quality management business.industry Incidence (epidemiology) MEDLINE Surgery Emergency medicine Severity of illness medicine Clinical quality Geriatrics and Gerontology Stage (cooking) Nursing homes business Quality assurance
Zdroj:	Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 55:1663-1669
ISSN:	1532-5415 0002-8614
DOI:	10.1111/j.1532-5415.2007.01380.x
Popis:	The National Nursing Home Improvement Collaborative aimed to reduce pressure ulcer (PU) incidence and prevalence. Guided by subject matter and process experts, 29 quality improvement organizations and six multistate long-term care corporations recruited 52 nursing homes in 39 states to implement recommended practices using quality improvement methods. Facilities monitored monthly PU incidence and prevalence, healing, and adoption of key care processes. In residents at 35 regularly reporting facilities, the total number of new nosocomial Stage III to IV PUs declined 69%. The facility median incidence of Stage III to IV lesions declined from 0.3 per 100 occupied beds per month to 0.0 (P
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