A lower rate is better. Steps our doctors, nurses, and healthcare personnel in the Women and Infants Center take to prevent patient falls and injuries: Hospital acquired pressure injury (HAPI), also ...

Evaluating Your Pressure Ulcer Prevention Plan A problem-solving worksheet for people with spinal cord injury and their health care providers was developed by the Secondary Complications and Aging ...

If a pressure injury progresses, it can reach the muscles and bones shifting positions to prevent the same parts of the body from staying under pressure for too long.

To address this problem, for each risk identified, the 10-bed unit implemented the Cubbin-Jackson scale with corresponding pressure injury prevention interventions. After using the new scale for ...

Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) can happen in everyday life, not just in severe car crashes. Dr. Yashar Kalani with Ascension ...

Use of a Sacral Foam Dressing to Prevent Pressure Injury in At-Risk Subacute Hospitalized Older Adults: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. An Evaluation of Barriers and Facilitators for a ...

To address this critical safety challenge, the group released a new resource on February 25, The Importance of Musculoskeletal Disorder and Related Injury Surveillance: An Organizational Approach.

Edited by James L. Weeks, ScD, Barry S. Levy, MD, MPH, and Gregory R. Wagner, MD American Public Health Association, 2005 $31.00 ISBN 0-87553-043-5, softcover This book, thoroughly updated from ...