title: Seeking quality care for patients with pressure ulcers.
abstract: 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 10cm2 was higher in the air-suspension group. There was relatively little difference in the Stage II ulcer patients.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Day
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Leonard
mesh_terms: D015400:Clinical Nursing Research; D006801:Humans; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D003668:Pressure Ulcer / Q000451:nursing* / Q000503:physiopathology; D014945:Wound Healing