Differentiating Pressure Ulcer Risk Levels through Interpretable Classification Models Based on Readily Measurable Indicators.

Pressure ulcers carry a significant risk in clinical practice. This paper proposes a practical and interpretable approach to estimate the risk levels of pressure ulcers using decision tree models. In order to address the common problem of imbalanced learning in nursing classification datasets, various oversampling configurations are analyzed to improve the data quality prior to modeling.

[Spanish translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the Pressure Ulcer Quality of Life Questionnaire (PU-QOL).].

Objective: Pressure ulcers (PU) are the most prevalent of the dependency-related injuries, affecting the quality of life of the patients who suffer them. However, there are no instruments adapted to the Spanish context to evaluate this quality of life. The use of specific tools in Spanish to evaluate the quality of life perceived by patients with PUs is considered an indispensable element for healthcare decisions.

Decision-Tree-Based Approach for Pressure Ulcer Risk Assessment in Immobilized Patients.

Applications where data mining tools are used in the fields of medicine and nursing are becoming more and more frequent. Among them, decision trees have been applied to different health data, such as those associated with pressure ulcers. Pressure ulcers represent a health problem with a significant impact on the morbidity and mortality of immobilized patients and on the quality of life of affected people and their families.

Pressure Ulcers Risk Assessment According to Nursing Criteria.

Pressure ulcers (PU) represent a health problem with a significant impact on the morbidity and mortality of immobilized patients, and on the quality of life of affected people and their families. Risk assessment of pressure ulcers incidence must be carried out in a structured and comprehensive manner. The Braden Scale is the result of an analysis of risk factors that includes subscales that define exactly what should be interpreted in each one.

Monitoring Immobilized Elderly Patients Using a Public Provider Online System for Pressure Ulcer Information and Registration (SIRUPP): Protocol for a Health Care Impact Study.

Background: Pressure ulcers represent a major challenge to patient safety in the health care context, presenting high incidence (from 7% to 14% in Spain) and increased financial costs (€400-600 million/year) in medical treatment. Moreover, they are a significant predictor of mortality. The prevention of pressure ulcers in long-term care centers and patients' own homes is proposed as a priority indicator of health care quality.

[Waiting rooms for cancer patients: instruments for their analysis and improvement].

Objective: To conduct a quality analysis of the waiting rooms in the departments of oncology and oncological radiotherapy in Andalusian Health Service hospitals.

Material And Methods: In order to carry out the project, both quantitative (structured observation) and qualitative methods (focus groups) were combined. In the first place, parameters for the analysis were identified.

Oncology care planning. Elements for care quality and management improving.

Background: The improvement of care quality depends on the education and skills of the professional team as well as on an adequate work method, which uses the right instruments of clinical management such as medical history, registers or protocols.

Objectives: Defining standardized criteria related to the oncology care quality and applying them to a group of hospitals within the framework of continuous improvement establishing comparisons among them.

Material And Methods: Information taken from 14 Andalusian public hospitals, in 2003 and first semester of 2004.