Reduction of pressure ulcer incidence in the home healthcare setting: a pressure-relief seating cushion project to reduce the number of community-acquired pressure ulcers

Home Healthc Nurse. 2011 Oct;29(9):575-9. doi: 10.1097/NHH.0b013e31822eb830.

Abstract

The development of pressure ulcers is a quality of care and cost issue across the healthcare continuum. Evidence-based practice includes pressure relief, but homebound elderly people at risk for developing pressure ulcers do not qualify to receive a pressure-relief seating surface under Medicare unless they have a wheelchair. A project was initiated to obtain and provide pressure-relief seat cushions for this at-risk population. The overall purpose of this project was to reduce the incidence of community-acquired pressure ulcers using evidence-based practice.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Community Health Nursing / methods*
  • Equipment Design
  • Home Care Services*
  • Humans
  • Incidence
  • Male
  • Outcome Assessment, Health Care
  • Pressure Ulcer / epidemiology*
  • Pressure Ulcer / nursing
  • Pressure Ulcer / prevention & control*
  • Risk Assessment
  • Self-Help Devices*
  • Treatment Outcome
  • United States