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Tag Archives: Pressure Ulcers: Prevention
Mortality Rate of Persons With Pressure Ulcers in Hospital: a Local Audit (Wounds UK)
Summary An audit was performed at an NHS trust over a 6-month period to examine the mortality rates of patients reported to have SCALE grade 2, 3 or 4 pressure ulcers in acute care. It was found that 44% of … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, End of Life Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Local Interest, Management of Condition, New Cross Hospital, Quick Insights, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust Authorial Affiliation, Statistics, Universal Interest, Wolverhampton
Tagged Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Acute Hospitals, Co-Morbidity, Comorbidity, Complex Comorbidities, Decreased Tissue Perfusion, Dehydration, End of Life Care, End of Life Care Research, End-of-Life Care in Acute Hospitals, End-of-Life Skin Changes, European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel’s SCALE: Skin Changes at Life’s End, Frailty, Hospital End-of-Life Care, Immobility, Incontinence, Inpatient Palliative Care, Irregular Blood Chemistry, Local Audit of Mortality Rates of Persons With Pressure Ulcers in Acute Hospitals, Localised Hypoxia, Loss of Function, Loss of Mobility, Malnutrition, Managing Comorbidity and Complexity, Mortality Rates, Mortality Rates of Persons With Pressure Ulcers in Hospital, Mortality Risk Factors, Multiple Comorbidities, NHS England Midlands and East: Stop the Pressure Campaign, Organic Deterioration Towards End of Life, Overlapping Risk Factors, Pain, Palliative and End-of-Life Care in Hospitals, Palliative Care, Pressure Ulcer Incidence, Pressure Ulcer Prevalence, Pressure Ulcers, Pressure Ulcers: Prevention, Pressure Ulcers: Risk Assessment, Pressure Ulcers: Risk Factors, Prevention and Management of Pressure Ulcers, Reduced Mobility, Reduced Peripheral Tissue Perfusion, Risk Assessment and Prevention of Pressure Ulcers, Risk Factors, Skin Changes at Life’s End (SCALE), Skin Failure, Skin Integrity, Stages of Pressure Ulcers, Stop The Pressure, Tissue Integrity, Wounds UK
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Patient Safety Improvement in Care Homes (BMC Health Services Research)
Summary A programme to improve patient / resident safety in care homes is to be conducted in Walsall and Wolverhampton over 24 months. This article outlines the evaluation of this care home improvement programme in the West Midlands. The aim is … Continue reading
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, Falls, Falls Prevention, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Local Interest, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest, Wolverhampton
Tagged Adverse Drug Reaction / Error Champions, Adverse Drug Reactions, Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs), Adverse Drug Reactions in the Elderly, Adverse Safety Events, Avoidable Acute Hospital Admission in Older People, BMC Health Services Research, Care Home Culture, Care Home Environments, Care Homes, Changes in Safety Practices (Care Home Level), Changes in Safety Practices (Staff Level), CLAHRCs: NIHR Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care, Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC), College of Medical and Dental Sciences: University of Birmingham, Culture of Safety, Dementia Education, Dementia Training, Education and Training, Hospital Activity, Improving Patient Safety, Inappropriate Hospital Admissions, Infection Control, Institute of Applied Health Research: University of Birmingham, Institute of Health Professions: University of Wolverhampton, Local AHSNs, Local Patient Safety Collaboratives, Medication Errors, Meridian Online Health Innovation Exchange, NHS England's Sign Up to Safety Campaign, NHS Walsall CCG, NHS Wolverhampton CCG, NIHR CLAHRC West Midlands, Opportunities to Treat Patients Without Hospital Admission, Patient Safety, Patient Safety Collaborative Programmes, Patient Safety Collaboratives, Patient Safety Collaboratives Programme, Positive Approaches to Care (PAC), Pressure Ulcers, Pressure Ulcers: Prevention, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Primary Health Care (Journal), Quality and Safety Improvement Approaches in Care Homes, Quality Improvement, Quality of Life for People Living in Care Homes, Research in Care Homes, Safer Provision and Caring Excellence (SPACE) Programme, Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ), Safety Improvement in Care Homes, Sign up to Safety, Sign Up to Safety Campaign, Skills and Training, SPACE Programme (WMAHSN), Staff Training, Training and Support, Transfer of Medicines, University of Birmingham, University of Wolverhampton, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs), Walsall, Walsall and Wolverhampton Care Home Improvement Programme, Walsall and Wolverhampton Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Wellbeing in Care Homes, West Midlands, West Midlands Patient Safety Collaborative (PSC), Wolverhampton, Workforce Competencies, Workforce Training
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The Financial and Human Costs of Mistakes (BBC News / Frontier Economics / CQC / NHS England / NHS IQ / BMJ Quality and Safety / Department of Health / BMC Family Practice)
Summary The NHS in England is being urged to reduce mistakes by half, as mistakes in hospitals cost the NHS around £2.5bn per year. Four aspects of poor patient safety include falls, bed ulcers, urinary infections caused by poorly fitted … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, CQC: Care Quality Commission, Department of Health, Falls, Falls Prevention, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS England, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs), Adverse Events, AHSNs, Australia, Australia's Safety Alert Broadcasting Systems, Avoidable Harm, Avoiding Litigation, Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, BBC Health News, BBC Shared Data Unit, Bed Sores, Bed Ulcers, Behavioural Insights Team, Berwick Review, Berwick Review of Patient Safety, Birmingham Children’s Hospital (BCH), Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Blood Clots, BMC Family Practice, BMJ Quality and Safety, Bradford, Bradford Institute for Health Research, Bradford Royal Infirmary, Capping Lawyers' Payments (Negligence Claims), Care Quality Commission (CQC), Centre for Clinical Governance Research: University of New South Wales, Consequences of the Francis Inquiry Report, Costs of NHS Mistakes (Statistics), Costs of Unsafe Care in NHS, County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust, CQC Hospital Inspections, Decubitus Ulcers, Dr Chris Streather: Managing Director of Health Innovation Network (AHSN for South London), Dr Liz Mear: Chief Executive, Dr Mike Durkin: NHS England’s Director of Patient Safety, DVT, Effectiveness, Ensuring Correct Personal Information, Falls Prevention, Financial Incentives, Financial Penalties, Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Francis Inquiry, Frontier Economics Ltd, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, Haelo (Innovation and Improvement Centre), Harm Free Care, Harm Free Care Website (Run by Haelo Team), HC 691, Healthbus, Healthcare Quality Improvement, Hospital Aquired VTE, Hospital Discharge, IHI Outpatient Adverse Event Trigger Tool, Improving Patient Safety, Incentives, Infection Prevention, Institute of Psychological Sciences, Institute of Psychological Sciences: University of Leeds, Leeds, Legal Costs: Negligence Claims, Litigation Claims, Local Area Teams (LATs), Local Patient Safety Collaboratives, Medical Negligence Claims, Medicines Safety, National Audit Office (NAO), National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA), National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS), Negligence Claims Against the NHS, Never Events, Never Events Policy Framework, Never Events Policy Framework Review, Never Events Policy Framework Review Consultation, NHS Area Teams (ATs), NHS England's Sign Up to Safety Campaign, NHS Improving Quality (NHS IQ), NHS IQ, NHS Litigation Authority (NHSLA), NHS Resolution, NHS Safety Thermometer, NHS Standard Contract, NIHR Greater Manchester Primary Care Patient Safety Translational Research Centre: University of Manchester, North West Coast AHSN, Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, NRLS Harm Definitions, Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO), Patient Safety, Patient Safety Collaboratives, Patient Safety Collaboratives Programme, Patient Safety Thermometer, Pay-Outs by NHS Litigation Authority, Payments in Respect of Negligence Claims Against the NHS, Performance Incentives, Positive and Negative Deviance, Positive Behaviours, Positive Deviance, Pressure Sores, Pressure Ulcer Avoidance, Pressure Ulcers, Pressure Ulcers: Prevention, Preventable Adverse Events, Productivity, Professor Don Berwick, Promise to Learn: Berwick Report, Prospective and Proactive Thinking, Quality Improvement Methodologies, Raising Concerns, Raising Questions, Reducing Clinical Negligence Claims, Reducing Litigation Costs, Reduction in Bureaucracy, Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust, Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP: Former Secretary of State for Health, Safety Alert Broadcasting Systems (Australia), Safety Initiatives, Safety Standards in Hospitals, Safety Standards in Hospitals in England, Safety Thermometer, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, School of Community Health Sciences: University of Nottingham Medical School, Serious Incident Framework, Service Redesign for Productivity, Severe Pressure Ulcers, Sign up to Safety, Sign Up to Safety Campaign, Sign Up to Safety Pledges, STEIS, Strategic Executive Information System (StEIS), Suzette Woodward: Sign Up to Safety, Tools for Primary Care Patient Safety, UK NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement Primary Care Trigger Tool, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, University of Leeds, University of Manchester, University of New South Wales, University of Nottingham, University of Nottingham Medical School, Unsafe Care in NHS, Urinary Catheters, Urinary Infections, Urinary Tract Infections, Urinary Tract Infections (in Patients with Catheters), Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs), Venous Thromboembolisms (VTEs), VTE (Venous Thromboembolism), Winterbourne View, Zero Harm
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Pressure-Relieving Devices for Heel Pressure Ulcers (Cochrane Database)
Summary Pressure redistribution devices are part of the treatment for reducing pressure on heel ulcers. This review examines the effects of pressure-relieving interventions for treating pressure ulcers on the heel. One small study was found to be inconclusive. More research … Continue reading
Posted in For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Management of Condition, Quick Insights, UK
Tagged Cochrane Database, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Heel Pressure Ulcers, Leeds, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Pressure Ulcers, Pressure Ulcers: Prevention, Pressure-Relieving Devices
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