 Pressure Ulcer
"Pressure Ulcer" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An ulceration caused by prolonged pressure on the SKIN and TISSUES when one stay in one position for a long period of time, such as lying in bed. The bony areas of the body are the most frequently affected sites which become ischemic (ISCHEMIA) under sustained and constant pressure.
| Descriptor ID |
D003668
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C17.800.893.665
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| Concept/Terms |
Pressure Ulcer- Pressure Ulcer
- Pressure Ulcers
- Ulcer, Pressure
- Ulcers, Pressure
- Pressure Sore
- Pressure Sores
- Sore, Pressure
- Sores, Pressure
- Decubitus Ulcer
- Decubitus Ulcers
- Ulcer, Decubitus
- Ulcers, Decubitus
- Bed Sores
- Bed Sore
- Sore, Bed
- Sores, Bed
- Bedsore
- Bedsores
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| 1987 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2002 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2006 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2007 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2012 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2016 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2017 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2018 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Pressure Ulcer" by people in Profiles.
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Solmos S, Radkevich-Brown O, LaFond C. Differentiating Deep Tissue Pressure Injury (DTPI) From Other Causes of Purpura in the Sacrococcygeal Area: A Multiple Case Series. J Wound Ostomy Continence Nurs. 2019 May/Jun; 46(3):256-262.
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Davidson C, Loganathan S, Bishop L, Imhof L, Bergofsky L, Spector W, Konetzka RT. Scalability of an IT Intervention to Prevent Pressure Ulcers in Nursing Homes. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2019 07; 20(7):816-821.e2.
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Watkins AA, Castillo-Angeles M, Calvillo-Ortiz R, Guetter CR, Eskander MF, Ghaffarpasand E, Anguiano-Landa L, Tseng JF, Moser AJ, Callery MP, Kent TS. Braden scale for pressure ulcer risk predicts rehabilitation placement after pancreatic resection. HPB (Oxford). 2019 07; 21(7):923-927.
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Brauner D, Werner RM, Shippee TP, Cursio J, Sharma H, Konetzka RT. Does Nursing Home Compare Reflect Patient Safety In Nursing Homes? Health Aff (Millwood). 2018 11; 37(11):1770-1778.
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Padula WV, Pronovost PJ, Makic MBF, Wald HL, Moran D, Mishra MK, Meltzer DO. Value of hospital resources for effective pressure injury prevention: a cost-effectiveness analysis. BMJ Qual Saf. 2019 02; 28(2):132-141.
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Padula WV, Gibbons RD, Pronovost PJ, Hedeker D, Mishra MK, Makic MB, Bridges JF, Wald HL, Valuck RJ, Ginensky AJ, Ursitti A, Venable LR, Epstein Z, Meltzer DO. Using clinical data to predict high-cost performance coding issues associated with pressure ulcers: a multilevel cohort model. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2017 Apr 01; 24(e1):e95-e102.
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Clay AS, Chudgar SM, Turner KM, Vaughn J, Knudsen NW, Farnan JM, Arora VM, Molloy MA. How Prepared Are Medical and Nursing Students to Identify Common Hazards in the Intensive Care Unit? Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2017 Apr; 14(4):543-549.
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Padula WV, Gibbons RD, Valuck RJ, Makic MB, Mishra MK, Pronovost PJ, Meltzer DO. Are Evidence-based Practices Associated With Effective Prevention of Hospital-acquired Pressure Ulcers in US Academic Medical Centers? Med Care. 2016 May; 54(5):512-8.
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Padula WV, Blackshaw L, Brindle CT, Volchenboum SL. An Approach to Acquiring, Normalizing, and Managing EHR Data From a Clinical Data Repository for Studying Pressure Ulcer Outcomes. J Wound Ostomy Continence Nurs. 2016 Jan-Feb; 43(1):39-45.
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Padula WV, Wald HM, Meltzer DO. Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management. Ann Intern Med. 2015 Jul 21; 163(2):148-9.
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