The National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel redefined the definition of a pressure ulcer and the stages of pressure ulcers in 2007, including the original 4 stages and adding 2 stages on deep tissue ...

Stage three or four pressure ulcer was the most-reported hospital-acquired condition in 2010 among Indiana hospitals, according to the Indiana State Department of ...

A nursing home in Canfield, Ohio, has been accused of lying to the family of a 75-year-old woman about a “worsening” Stage 4 pressure ulcer that she later died from, according to a lawsuit. Judy Marsh ...

A Lee’s Summit woman has filed a lawsuit against University Health, formerly Truman Medical Center, alleging her husband died of a preventable injury that developed while he was admitted to the ...

There is no reason that patients with Grade IV decubitus ulcers in the United States are not being offered surgery for cure when these surgeries are available in other countries.” — Greg Vigna, MD, JD ...

What is important to know about wounds and PDPM? Ensuring proper diagnoses and assessments of wounds is key. Under the Patient-Driven Payment Model, wounds can impact reimbursement under the nursing ...

Sores, cuts, scrapes, and other skin breaks come in various shapes and sizes, but the management of persistent cases is based on a few basic tenets. Call them ulcers. Call them wounds. Call them open ...

A nursing home in Canfield, Ohio, has been accused of lying to the family of a 75-year-old woman about a "worsening" Stage 4 pressure ulcer that she later died from, according to a lawsuit. Judy Marsh ...