The SHA identified the elimination of all grade 2, 3 and 4 pressure ulcers by December 2012 as its first ambition. This article discusses the methods chosen for measuring and monitoring the incidence ...

The National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel redefined the definition of a pressure ulcer and the stages of pressure ulcers in 2007, including the original 4 stages and adding 2 stages on deep tissue ...

One of those five ambitions was the “elimination of avoidable grade 2, 3 and 4 pressure ulcers”. Part of the programme to achieve this ambition was a communications project. Our first step in ...

the numerator of the quality measure would be updated to include unstageable pressure ulcers, including sDTIs that are new/developed in the facility, as well as Stage 1 or 2 pressure ulcers that ...

The population was people in the community or in hospital who: had a grade 1 or 2 pressure ulcer and were at risk of progressing to a grade 3 or 4 pressure ulcer did not have a pressure ulcer but were ...

Payment changes Payment for advanced-stage HAPUs denied; stages 1 and 2 pressure ulcers (hospital-acquired or present on admission) not counted as comorbidities for increasing hospital payment ...

How should suspected deep tissue injury (sDTI) pressure ulcers be coded on the MDS 2.0? Unfortunately, the users manual (RAI manual) for the MDS does not include a any directions for specifically ...