One measure of the safety and quality of nursing home care is the presence of a pressure ulcer on its residents. CMS reports these numbers to the public as a star-ranking on Nursing Home Compares and ...

At the state level, as many nursing homes reported 33% of their major injury falls as reported 94.3%, and a similar spread was found for pressure ulcers. The researchers said that showed that ...

Findings indicates an ‘urgent need’ for an alternative approach to measuring patient safety in nursing homes, researchers say. A significant percentage of pressure ulcers are not reported by nursing ...

Nursing homes underreport hospitalizations of residents with pressure ulcers, a study published Aug. 4 in Medical Care found. Researchers from the University of Chicago used pressure ulcer ...

Among nursing home residents at high risk for pressure ulcers, black residents had higher prevalence rates than white residents from 2003 through 2008, with the disparity largely related to the higher ...

More than one in 10 nursing home residents had a pressure ulcer in 2004, according to newly released statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Key findings from the report show ...

Nursing orientation programs that address both the compassionate and scientific aspects of patient care help to improve patient satisfaction scores and reduce the incidence of falls and pressure ...

Risk assessment is the first step in pressure ulcer prevention to identify patients most at risk, plan and implement interventions, and ensure resources are used appropriately. A risk assessment ...

Researchers at the University of Chicago have found that the number and severity of pressure ulcers suffered by Medicare residents in U.S. nursing homes is substantially underreported, leading to ...