Nearly 18 months after acquiring the Braden Scale ©, prominent patient safety solutions company releases updated assessment tools to reduce pressure injuries, a $28B annual cost to U.S. hospitals LAS ...
Recently, a 120-bed skilled nursing facility was cited by for pressure ulcer development. Records, as well as observations of the facility’s residents, identified a significant number of newly ...
In a study from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (Penn Nursing), a new, simplified Braden QD Scale now describes combined immobility-related and MDPI risk in a broader, more diverse ...
Barbara Braden became known internationally for developing a tool in the 1980s that’s widely used in hospitals and nursing homes to assess and predict patients’ likelihood of developing pressure sores ...