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- Published on: 12 April 2018
- Published on: 12 April 2018Pressure injury documentation: the case for using incident reports to inform quality improvement
Pressure injuries are a largely avoidable adverse patient safety event, which are the focus of considerable global quality improvement efforts. Recent papers by Padula and Pronovost (1) and Squitieri et al. (2) highlight some of the challenges that exist with regards to efforts prevent and reduce the extent of patient harm arising from pressure injuries. These challenges include inconsistent reporting of the extent of pressure injury related harm as evinced by differences in the pressure injury related documentation from different care settings (1, 2) which are thought to be due to financial penalties for nosocomial pressure injuries (1). Padula and Pronovost (1) highlight the fact that the majority of the measurement and reporting of pressure injuries as well as the financial penalties for pressure injuries focus on hospital settings when pressure injury can arise at any point during a patient’s care trajectory. A number of possible solutions are put forward by Padula and Pronovost (1) to avoid underreporting the true extent of pressure injuries and to generate more accurate data that can be used to prevent and reduce the number of patients with pressure injuries in hospitals and other care settings. However, it is worth reflecting on the challenges of measurement and reporting for quality improvement and to considering what other routinely collected pressure injury related data can be used to inform improvement efforts.
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