Benchmarkers find keys to best wound care practices.
Forty-two Southeast hospitals benchmark to establish 54 "best practices" for improving outcomes in treating pressure ulcers. Nine factors critical to the success of a pressure ulcer program are identified: content, ease of use, patient satisfaction, staff education and awareness, efficacy, staff inclusion, tracking and use of information, physician involvement, and continuum of care.
D019985:Benchmarking; D003363:Cost Control; D019091:Critical Pathways; D006801:Humans; D010351:Patient Discharge; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D003668:Pressure Ulcer / Q000191:economics / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy*; D015995:Prevalence; D018570:Risk Assessment; D015144:Southeastern United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014481:United States; D016270:United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality