Pressure Ulcers in the News
The New York Times is paying attention to the fight against pressure ulcers
and reports:
"New research is suggesting that the battle against bedsores requires a team
approach, enlisting everyone from nurses and nursing assistants to laundry workers, nutritionists, maintenance workers
and even in-house beauticians. In a study of a collaborative
program involving 52 nursing homes around the country, The Journal of the
American Geriatrics Society reported last
August that team efforts had reduced the number of severe pressure ulcers
acquired in-house by 69 percent."
Read
the article online.