Seeking Quality Care for Patients with Pressure Ulcers
作者:
Aileen Day,
Frances Leonard,
期刊:
Decubitis
(OVID Available online 1993)
卷期:
Volume 6,
issue 1
页码: 32-43
ISSN:0898-1655
年代: 1993
出版商: OVID
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
Improving quality care for patients with pressure ulcers resulted in a two-year intensive effort to educate staff, keep morale high, standardize care plans by stage of ulcer, and participate in a comparison study of two support surfaces (Thera-Pulse, Kinetic Concepts and Geo-Matt, SpanAmerica). When all pressure ulcers were considered, the analysis of covariance revealed no statistically significant difference in the healing of pressure ulcers with respect to type of support surface used (F[1, 78] = 0.35, p> .05). For patients with stage III and IV pressure ulcers, the proportion of patients improving more than 10cm2was higher in the air-suspension group. There was relatively little difference in the Stage II ulcer patients.
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