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Reducing hospital-acquired pressure injuries.
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- Implementation of the REPRISE care bundle model for the prevention of pressure ulcers in an intensive care unit: An experimental study.International wound journal · 2024Article
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- Sustainable pressure injury prevention.BMJ open quality · 2023Article
- Critical care nurses' knowledge, attitudes, and practices of pressure injury prevention in China: A multicentric cross-sectional survey.International wound journal · 2023Article
- Strategies to preventing pressure injuries among intensive care unit patients mechanically ventilated in prone position: a systematic review and a Delphi study.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Article
- Pressure ulcer prevalence and prevention interventions - A ten-year nationwide survey in Sweden.International wound journal · 2022Article
- Characteristics of Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcer and Factors Affecting Its Development: A Retrospective Study.Cureus · 2020Article
- Attitudes of Spanish Nurses towards Pressure Injury Prevention and Psychometric Characteristics of the Spanish Version of the APuP Instrument.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Application of the educational method of realistic simulation in the treatment of pressure injuries.Revista latino-americana de enfermagem · 2020Article
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Abstract
Hospital-acquired pressure injury is a common preventable condition. Our hospital is a 144-bed governmental hospital in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that was found to have a 7.5% prevalence of hospital-acquired pressure injury in 2016. The aim of the improvement project was to reduce the prevalence of pressure injuries in our hospital from 7.5% to below 4% by the end of 2017. Our strategy for improvement was based on the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Model for Improvement. The change strategy was based on implementing an evidence-based risk assessment tool and a bundled evidence-based pressure injury prevention (PIP) intervention termed PIP bundle. After implementing the change package, we observed a reduction in the prevalence of pressure injuries by 84% (RR 0.16;95% CI 0.07 to 0.3; p value <0.0001) over a period of 12 weeks, in addition to an improvement in the compliance of pressure injury risk assessment and PIP interventions. The use of an evidenced-based bundled approach to prevent hospital-acquired pressure injuries has resulted in a significant reduction in the rate of pressure injuries. Improvement results were sustainable. In addition, our outcome measure exhibited minimal variability.
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