According to a presentation by Penn Medicine leaders, researchers at the healthcare organization created a framework based on clinical evidence and best practices, eventually leading to a new evidence-based prevention bundle, SKINCARE:
• Support surface
• Keep repositioning
• Incontinence care
• Nutrition and hydration
• Careful lifting (ceiling lifts)
• Assess risk and skin daily
• Reduce HOB to less than or equal to 30 degrees
• Elevate heels
This prevention bundle, in addition to improved documentation, staff education and other measures, helped reduce the incidence of pressure ulcers across the entire health system by 37 percent.
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