Meeting
Abstract Number: 87
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: Reduced payments from Medicare related to high rates of hospital-acquired pressure injuries has prompted hospitals to invest in new technologies and strategies to improve wound care and prevention. While many hospitals have increased the purchase of skin care products such as prophylactic dressings, little is known about the association between these products and reductions […]
Abstract Number: 88
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: Reduced payments from Medicare related to high rates of hospital-acquired pressure injuries has prompted hospitals to invest in new technologies and strategies to improve wound care and prevention. While many hospitals have increased the purchase of skin care products such as prophylactic dressings, little is known about the association between these products and reductions […]
Abstract Number: 337
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Pressure injuries are tissue damage caused by pressure and shear. Susceptible patients are the elderly, acute, critically ill and malnourished. Pressure injuries severely deplete hospital performance measures in the U.S. Currently, over 2.5 million patients develop pressure injuries at a national cost of about $25 billion each year and are implicated in 50,000 deaths. […]