title: Wound care team nips costly bed sore problems, slashes hospital expenses.
abstract: Innovative wound care team combats bed sores and saves hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. A multidisciplinary team composed of plastic surgeons, nurses, nutritionists, and others pursue an aggressive risk assessment protocol to identify patients at risk for pressure ulcers. Avoiding this problem gets patients discharged sooner and they consume fewer resources during their hospital stay.
mesh_terms: D017046:Cost Savings / Q000379:methods; D019091:Critical Pathways; D017721:Hospital Costs; D006785:Hospitals, University / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D008403:Mass Screening; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital; D010348:Patient Care Team; D015143:Philadelphia / Q000453:epidemiology; D003668:Pressure Ulcer / Q000191:economics* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy*; D015995:Prevalence; D018570:Risk Assessment