Learning During Crisis: The Impact of COVID-19 on Hospital-Acquired Pressure Injury Incidence
| Autor: | Rebecca S. Miltner, Patricia A. Patrician, Aoyjai P Montgomery, Ene M Enogela, Allyson G. Hall, Terri Poe, Shea Polancich |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty Iatrogenic Disease Occupational safety and health hospital-acquired pressure injury 03 medical and health sciences Patient safety 0302 clinical medicine Hospitals Urban Health care Pandemic Epidemiology medicine patient safety Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Aged Retrospective Studies Pressure Ulcer Academic Medical Centers Descriptive statistics business.industry 030503 health policy & services Health Policy Incidence (epidemiology) Incidence Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health COVID-19 Middle Aged Southeastern United States Emergency medicine Observational study Original Article Female 0305 other medical science business |
| Zdroj: | Journal for Healthcare Quality |
| ISSN: | 1945-1474 1062-2551 |
| Popis: | The impact of COVID-19, on the health and safety of patients, staff, and healthcare organizations, has yet to be fully uncovered. Patient adverse events, such as hospital-acquired pressure injuries (HAPIs), have been problematic for decades. The introduction of a pandemic to an environment that is potentially at-risk for adverse events may result in unintended patient safety and quality concerns. We use the learning health system framework to motivate our understanding of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the incidence of HAPIs within our health system. Using a retrospective, observational design, we used descriptive statistics to evaluate trends in HAPI from March to July 2020. Hospital-acquired pressure injury numbers have fluctuated from a steady increase from March-May 2020, hitting a peak high of 90 cases in the month of May. However, the trend in the total all stage HAPIs began to decline in June 2020, with a low of 51 in July, the lowest number since March 2020. Patients evaluated in this study did not have a longitudinal increase in HAPIs from March-July 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, despite similarities in illness severity between the two time points. Our experience has demonstrated the ability of our organizational leaders to learn quickly during crisis. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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