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Prevention of Bedsores in LTC Homes is Cost-Effective, Study Shows

For all long-term care residents, pressure reduction foam mattresses were cost-effective 82 percent of the time compared to standard mattresses, with average savings of $115 per resident, the researchers showed. Foam cleansers for incontinence care would be cost-effective ...More
September 26, 2011
Posted in News
Better Hospital Mattresses in the ED Reduce Costs Associated With Pressure Ulcers

Hospitals could reduce healthcare costs arising from pressure ulcers, commonly known as bedsores, by investing in pressure-reduction mattresses for elderly patients in emergency departments, according to new research from the University of Toronto. In emergency departments ...More
August 17, 2011
Posted in News
Higher Prevalence of Pressure Ulcers in Black High-Risk Nursing Home Residents Related to Care Site

Among nursing home residents at high risk for pressure ulcers, black residents had higher prevalence rates than white residents from 2003 through 2008, with the disparity largely related to the higher rates among nursing homes that disproportionately serve black residents, ...More
July 12, 2011
Posted in News
Pocket Guide to Pressure Ulcers Updated With MDS 3.0 Information

The Pocket Guide to Pressure Ulcers, a bedside resource used by more than 20,000 caregivers nationwide, has been updated with information on MDS 3.0 requirements from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The Pocket Guide is a convenient reference tool that helps ...More
October 14, 2010
Posted in News
Decubitus Ulcers are Polymicrobial, Treatment Should be Tailored to Patients' Wound Microflora

Decubitus ulcers, also known as bedsores or pressure ulcers, affect millions of hospitalized patients each year. The microflora of chronic wounds such as ulcers most commonly exist in the biofilm phenotype and have been known to significantly impair normal healing ...More
September 22, 2010
Posted in News
Wound Care: Pressure Ulcer Best Practices

Pressure ulcers, otherwise known as decubitus ulcers, comprise a significant portion of wounds requiring specialized care and presenting additional costs, so prevention is critically important. A pressure ulcer is any lesion caused by unrelieved pressure resulting in damage ...More
March 17, 2010
Posted in Articles
A Second Skin Helps Wound Healing

Despite advances in treatment regimens and the best efforts of clinicians, about 70 percent of all people with severe burns die from related infections. But a revolutionary new wound dressing developed at Tel Aviv University (TAU) could cut that number dramatically.Meital ...More
November 17, 2009
Posted in News
Taking Sharper Aim at Stomach Ulcer Bacteria

Scientists are reporting discovery of a much sought after crack in the armor of a common microbe that infects the stomachs of one-sixth of the world’s population, causing stomach ulcers and other diseases. They identified a group of substances that block a key ...More
September 30, 2009
Posted in News
Dermastream Aims to Wash Away Bacteria From Bedsores, Chronic Ulcers

The Dermastream device, as it will be used for a leg wound.More than 6 million people in the U.S. suffer from persistent wounds — open sores that never seem to heal or, once apparently healed, return with a vengeance. The bedridden elderly and infirm are prone to ...More
August 26, 2009
Posted in News
Nonprofit Nursing Homes Provide Better Care; Implications for Pressure Ulcers, Other Patient-Care Concerns

A major new statistical review of 82 individual research studies has revealed that nonprofit nursing homes deliver, on average, higher quality care than for-profit nursing homes. The findings could have a bearing on the present debate about the role of for-profit firms in ...More
August 19, 2009
Posted in News

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