Project works to end pressure ulcers in nursing homes
Contemporary Long-Term Care Weekly, October 25, 2007
A nationwide project has reduced serious pressure ulcers by more than two-thirds in the 35 facilities that reported data, according to the results of a project sponsored by CMS and published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
A total of 52 nursing homes in 39 states worked voluntarily with experts on preventing pressure ulcers and were able to reduce the incidence of serious wounds (ones that go through the skin and sometimes to the bone) by 69%, the project reported.
Materials used in the project are available free of charge to those interested in improving the care of pressure ulcers on the Medicare Quality Improvement Web site: http://www.medqic.org (under the "Nursing Home" tab).
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