Learning During Crisis: The Impact of COVID-19 on Hospital-Acquired Pressure Injury Incidence.
J Healthc Qual
; 43(3): 137-144, 2021.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1217965
ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT The impact of COVID-19, on the health and safety of patients, staff, and healthcare organizations, has yet to be fully uncovered. Patient adverse events, such as hospital-acquired pressure injuries (HAPIs), have been problematic for decades. The introduction of a pandemic to an environment that is potentially at-risk for adverse events may result in unintended patient safety and quality concerns. We use the learning health system framework to motivate our understanding of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the incidence of HAPIs within our health system. Using a retrospective, observational design, we used descriptive statistics to evaluate trends in HAPI from March to July 2020. Hospital-acquired pressure injury numbers have fluctuated from a steady increase from March-May 2020, hitting a peak high of 90 cases in the month of May. However, the trend in the total all stage HAPIs began to decline in June 2020, with a low of 51 in July, the lowest number since March 2020. Patients evaluated in this study did not have a longitudinal increase in HAPIs from March-July 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, despite similarities in illness severity between the two time points. Our experience has demonstrated the ability of our organizational leaders to learn quickly during crisis.
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pressure Ulcer
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COVID-19
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Iatrogenic Disease
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Adult
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Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Country/Region as subject:
North America
Language:
English
Journal:
J Healthc Qual
Journal subject:
Health Services Research
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
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