Publications by authors named "Brenda Vermillion"
Background And Purpose: Nurses' attitudes play an important role in the consistent practice of safe patient handling behaviors. The purposes of this study were to develop and assess the psychometric properties of a newly developed instrument measuring attitudes of nurses related to the care and safe handling of patients who are obese.
Methods: Phases of instrument development included (a) item generation, (b) content validity assessment, (c) reliability assessment, (d) cognitive interviewing, and (e) construct validity assessment through factor analysis.
Article Synopsis
- The study develops predictive models using electronic health record data to identify risk factors for pressure ulcers in ICU patients.
- A three-stage framework is utilized: feature extraction with clinician input, feature simplification, and Bayesian network model building.
- The resulting models from 7,717 ICU patients significantly improve prediction sensitivity of pressure ulcer risk factors compared to traditional methods, aiding clinicians in understanding and exploring these relationships.
Outcomes of an Oral Care Protocol in Postmechanically Ventilated Patients.
Worldviews Evid Based Nurs
April 2016
Background: Oral care is standard practice to prevent hospital-associated infections while patients are intubated and in the intensive care unit. Following extubation and transfer, infections remain an important risk for patients, but less attention is paid to oral care. Few studies have assessed the impact of oral care in recently extubated acutely ill patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPredictive Modeling for Pressure Ulcers from Intensive Care Unit Electronic Health Records.
AMIA Jt Summits Transl Sci Proc
August 2015
Our goal in this study is to find risk factors associated with Pressure Ulcers (PUs) and to develop predictive models of PU incidence. We focus on Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients since patients admitted to ICU have shown higher incidence of PUs. The most common PU incidence assessment tool is the Braden scale, which sums up six subscale features.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Obesity contributes to immobility and subsequent pressure on skin surfaces. Knowledge of the relationship between obesity and development of pressure ulcers in intensive care patients will provide better understanding of which patients are at high risk for pressure ulcers and allow more efficient prevention.
Objectives: To examine the incidence of pressure ulcers in patients who differ in body mass index and to determine whether inclusion of body mass index enhanced use of the Braden scale in the prediction of pressure ulcers.
Background: Patients in intensive care units are at higher risk for development of pressure ulcers than other patients. In order to prevent pressure ulcers from developing in intensive care patients, risk for development of pressure ulcers must be assessed accurately.
Objectives: To evaluate the predictive validity of the Braden scale for assessing risk for development of pressure ulcers in intensive care patients by using 4 years of data from electronic health records.
Introduction: We set a goal to reduce the incidence rate of catheter-related bloodstream infections to rate of <1 per 1,000 central line days in a two-year period.
Methods: This is an observational cohort study with historical controls in a 25-bed intensive care unit at a tertiary academic hospital. All patients admitted to the unit from January 2008 to December 2011 (31,931 patient days) were included.