Sustainable Pressure Injury Prevention

Overview

Journal BMJ Open Qual

Publisher BMJ Publishing Group

Specialty Health Services

Date 2023 Jun 7

PMID 37286297

Authors

Charleen Singh

Noordeen Shoqirat

Lee Thorpe

Stephanie Villaneuva

Affiliations

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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.

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