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Outcomes of present-on-admission pressure injuries at discharge and potential prognostic factors: A historical cohort study in China

Zhao, Jing, Cao, Yinan, Cheng, Yang, Sun, Hang, Chen, Tao ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5489-6450, Zhong, Yuling, Zhang, Liuxin, Zhou, Yufeng and Wang, Jie (2021) 'Outcomes of present-on-admission pressure injuries at discharge and potential prognostic factors: A historical cohort study in China'. Journal of Tissue Viability, Vol 30, Issue 4, pp. 576-581.

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Abstract

Background
The prevalence of present-on-admission pressure injuries (POA-PIs) is much higher than hospital-acquired pressure injuries (HAPIs). But scant attention has been paid to POA-PIs, especially the healing rate and potential prognostic factors.

Objective
To describe the characteristics of POA-PIs at admission and the outcomes of POA-PIs at discharge, and to explore potential prognostic factors of POA-PIs wound healing.

Methods
This study analyzed electronic health records (EHRs) for 838 POA-PIs among 586 patients from a Chinese tertiary hospital in 2018. The outcomes of POA-PIs were identified into four categories by comparing POA-PIs' wound area and exudation amount scores at admission and discharge: deteriorating, stable, improving, and healed. The generalized estimating equation (GEE) was carried out to screen the prognostic factors of POA-PIs wound healing.

Results
Among this population, 66.38% of the patients were male, 44.03% patients had a Braden Score less than 12 and the median of the Charlson comorbidity index was 5. The most common location of POA-PI wounds was the sacrum and the most common stage of them was Stage II. Nearly half of wounds (45.78%) were larger than 15 cm2, 26.61% were deeper than 0.5 cm, and 61.81% of the wounds were painful. When the patients were discharged, 29.71% wounds were healed, 36.16% were in improving status, 25.78% kept stable, and 8.35% wounds were in deteriorating status. Wound depth was the only independent prognostic factor for POA-PIs wound healing.

Conclusions
The healing rate of POA-PIs is quite low, and the only independent prognostic factor of POA-PIs was wound depth.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: QS Anatomy > Histology > QS 532 Types of normal tissue
WR Dermatology > WR 100 General works
WR Dermatology > Neoplasms. Ulcers. Occupational Dermatitis. Therapy > WR 598 Skin ulcers
Faculty: Department: Clinical Sciences & International Health > Clinical Sciences Department
Digital Object Identifer (DOI): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtv.2021.10.006
Depositing User: Christine Bradbury
Date Deposited: 30 Nov 2021 14:18
Last Modified: 23 Oct 2022 01:02
URI: https://archive.lstmed.ac.uk/id/eprint/19516

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