The Association Between Pressure Ulcer/Injury Development and Short-term Mortality in Critically Ill Patients: A Retrospective Cohort Study.

Unlabelled: Pressure ulcers/injuries (PU/Is) affect the social, mental, and physical well-being of patients; increase treatment costs; prolong hospital stays; increase patient risk for infections; and may independently decrease life expectancy.

Purpose: The aim of this retrospective study was to examine the association between PU/I development and mortality in a large cohort of consecutively admitted critically ill patients.

Methods: Data from adult patients ( >18 years of age) admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) between 2010 and 2013 were extracted from the ICU electronic clinical information system.

Critical Evaluation of the Jackson/Cubbin Pressure Ulcer Risk Scale - A Secondary Analysis of a Retrospective Cohort Study Population of Intensive Care Patients.

Although the Jackson/Cubbin pressure ulcer (PU) risk scale performs best among risk scales used in intensive care units (ICUs), its performance was not fully satisfactory. In 2010, a minimally modified Jackson/Cubbin (mJ/C) PU risk scale was introduced to formalize PU risk assessment in a large medical-surgical ICU in Finland. The purpose of this secondary analysis was to examine whether individual categories of the mJ/C scale have similar weight and whether the scores within each category (from 1 to 4; 1 equaling highest risk and 4 equaling lowest risk) are linear, as is assumed for the original and modified scales.