Cent Eur J Nurs Midw 2016, 7(2):444-452 | DOI: 10.15452/CEJNM.2016.07.0013

Registers of pressure ulcers in an international context

Andrea Pokorná1,*, Simona Saibertová1, Soňa Vasmanská1, Lucie Kubátová2, Nina Müllerová3, Petra Camprová4, Gabriela ©melková4
1 Masaryk University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Nursing, Brno, Czech Republic
2 Military University Hospital Prague, Surgical Department, Prague, Czech Republic
3 University Hospital Pilsen, Czech Republic
4 General University Hospital in Prague, Czech Republic

Aim: The aim of the following review was to search for existing registers of pressure ulcer (PU) incidence operating and collecting data on national level.

Design: Type of study - review.

Methods: Articles focusing on the subject of national PU registers were searched for by means of a systematic trawl through various databases using relevant terms. The search was limited to articles in English issued between 2010 and 2015 in the electronic databases SCOPUS and Nursing OVID. Articles focused on local datasets or registry as a part of local electronic health records were not included as well as studies which do not describe the dataset or the usability of data collection.

Results: In total, six papers were found fulfilling the established criteria.

Conclusion: According to information available from the literature review, it was recognised that only one register of PUs currently exists at the national level - the Registry of Ulcer Treatment (RUT) in Sweden. It can be assumed that registers exist in other countries, but that the information is not available on electronic databases. After a detailed inspection of the articles, it appears the information derived from the studies could provide a useful picture of the data that should be collected, and at what time during the treatment period (initial and final assessment of the patients and local symptomatology of the wound/pressure ulcer) it should be collected.

Keywords: pressure ulcers, pressure sores, bed sores, pressure injury, decubital lesions, decubitus, register, dataset, review, incidence, prevalence

Received: October 19, 2015; Accepted: January 25, 2016; Published: September 30, 2016  Show citation

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Pokorná A, Saibertová S, Vasmanská S, Kubátová L, Müllerová N, Camprová P, ©melková G. Registers of pressure ulcers in an international context. Central European Journal of Nursing and Midwifery. 2016;7(2):444-452. doi: 10.15452/CEJNM.2016.07.0013.
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