Abstract
The Jewish Home and Hospital for Aged, Bronx Division, is an 816-bed nursing facility that has developed a strategy for pressure ulcer management which relies on documentation, data flow, and feedback. Our system incorporates principles of Quality Improvement, and hasresulted in a remarkably low nosocomial ulcer prevalence rate of 3.1%. We discuss Quality Improvement in the nursing facility and examine the value of pressure ulcer prevalence as aquality indicator. We present details of our system, highlighting the flow of information which comprises the Quality Improvement infrastructure, and include a discussion of benefits and costs of our system.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 413-418 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | The Gerontologist |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 1994 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Models of caregiving
- Pressure ulcers
- Quality improvement