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A brief introduction to national secondary care data sets and their use in capturing and reporting pressure ulcer occurrence

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A brief introduction to national secondary care data sets and their use in capturing and reporting pressure ulcer occurrence

Ann Jacklin, Hazel Nyamajiyah, Jacqui Fletcher, Ken Dunn, Una Adderley
12 September 2021

Pressure ulcers (PU) are a long-standing challenge to health care, impacting on quality of life (QoL) and allocation of time and resources (Guest et al, 2020). The COVID-19 pandemic has posed additional challenges, and an increase in PU occurrence was identified during the first wave of the pandemic (Preshma, 2020). Cohesive data capture and reporting processes are crucial in underpinning any local or system wide quality improvement initiatives in PU prevention and care…