Prospective cohort study of routine use of risk assessment scales for prediction of pressure ulcers

British Medical Journal

Volumn 325, Issue 7368, 2002, Pages 797-800

  Schoonhoven, Lisette ^a   Haalboom, Jeen R E ^a   Bousema, Mente T ^b   Algra, Ale ^a   Grobbee, Diederick E ^a   Grypdonck, Maria H ^a   Buskens, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b EEMLAND HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DECUBITUS; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL PATIENT;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PRESSURE ULCER; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0037069049     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Health Council of the Netherlands. Pressure ulcers. The Hague: Health Council of the Netherlands, 1999. (Publication No 1999/23.)
2. Clark M, Farrar S. Comparison of pressure sore risk calculators. In: Harding KG, Leaper DL, eds. Proceeding of the first European conference on advances in wound management, 1991, Cardiff, United Kingdom. London: Macmillan, 1991:158-62.
3. Panel for the prediction and prevention of pressure ulcers in adults. Pressure ulcers in adults: prediction and prevention. Rockville: Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Public Health Service, US Department of Health and Human Services, 1992. (Clinical practice guideline number 3; AHCPR Publication No 92-0047.)
4. Goodridge DM, Sloan JA, LeDoyen YM, McKenzie JA, Knight WE, Gayari M. Risk-assessment scores, prevention strategies, and the incidence of pressure ulcers among the elderly in four Canadian health-care facilities. Can J Nurs Res 1998;30:23-44.
5. Bergstrom N, Braden B, Kemp M, Champagne M, Ruby E. Multi-site study of incidence of pressure ulcers and the relationship between risk level, demographic characteristics, diagnoses, and prescription of preventive interventions. J Am Geriatr Soc 1996;44:22-30.
6. Allman RM, Goode PS, Patrick MM, Burst N, Bartolucci AA. Pressure ulcer risk factors among hospitalized patients with activity limitation. JAMA 1995;273:865-70.
7. Clark M, Watts S. The incidence of pressure sores within a National Health Service Trust hospital during 1991. J Adv Nurs 1994;20:33-6.
8. Edwards M. The rationale for the use of risk calculators in pressure sore prevention, and the evidence of the reliability and validity of published scales. J Adv Nurs 1994;20:288-96.
9. European pressure ulcer advisory panel (EPUAP). Pressure ulcer prevention guidelines. Oxford: EPUAP, 1999. www.epaup.org/glprevention.html (accessed 19 Aug 2002).
10. Nixon J, McGough A. Principles of patient assessment: screening for pressure ulcers and potential risk. In Morison M, ed. The prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers. 1st ed. London: Mosby, 2001:55-74.
11. Haalboom JR, den Boer J, Buskens E. Risk-assessment tools in the prevention of pressure ulcers. Ostomy Wound Manage 1999;45:20-4.
12. Edwards M. Pressure sore risk calculators: some methodological issues. J Clin Nurs 1996;5:307-12.
13. Hamilton F. An analysis of the literature pertaining to pressure sore risk-assessment scales. J Clin Nurs 1992;1:185-93.
14. Norton D, McLaren R, Exton-Smith AN. Pressure sores. In: An investigation of geriatric nursing problems in hospital. New York: Churchill Livingstone, 1975.
15. Bergstrom N, Braden BJ, Laguzza A, Holman V. The Braden scale for predicting pressure sore risk. Nurs Res 1987;36:205-10.
16. Waterlow J. Pressure sores: a risk assessment card. Nurs Times 1985;81:49-55.
17. European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (EPUAP). Guidelines on treatment of pressure ulcers. Oxford: EPAUP, 1999. www.epuap.org/ gltreamaent.html (accessed 17 Sep 2002).
18. Stotts NA. Risk of pressure ulcer development in surgical patients: a review of the literature. Adv Wound Care 1999;12:127-36.
19. Beckrich K, Aronovitch SA. Hospital-acquired pressure ulcers: a comparison of costs in medical vs. surgical patients. Nurs Econ 1999;17:263-71.