Abstract

LARREA-LEOZ, Blanca; VAZQUEZ-CALATAYUD, Mónica  and  LABIANO-TURRILLAS, Juana. The impact evaluation of a nursing intervention in the prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers. Gerokomos [online]. 2015, vol.26, n.3, pp.115-119. ISSN 1134-928X.  https://dx.doi.org/10.4321/S1134-928X2015000300009.

Objective: To evaluate the impact of a nursing intervention in the prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers (PU). Methodology: Design quasi-experimental pre-post intervention. Results: The overall prevalence of PUs in our institution has not changed after surgery (χ² = 1.059, p = 0.589), remaining at 8.7%. However, it has fallen to 0 the number of ulcers of grade III and IV, has dropped significantly the prevalence of PU in Oncology-Hematology unit, the number of low-risk patients who developed PU and improved registration PU risk on admission. Conclusions: Despite these identified improvements will continue doing prevalence studies in order to know the situation and to implement improvement actions to reduce the prevalence rate.

Keywords : pressure ulcers; intervention; risk assessment; treatment; prevalence; quality improvement.

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