Empirical Studies

A Retrospective Study of the Impact of Pressure Ulcers on Survival in Elderly Persons With Chronic Diseases

Volume 63 - Issue 5 - May 2017 ISSN 1943-2720

Abstract

Introduction

Methods

Results

Discussion

Limitations

Conclusion

Affiliations

Correspondence

References

1. Lyder CH, Wang Y, Metersky M, et al. Hospital-acquired pressure ulcers: results from the national Medicare Patient Safety Monitoring System study. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2012;60(9)1603–1608.

2. Jaul E. Multidisciplinary and comprehensive approaches to optimal management of chronic pressure ulcers in the elderly. Chronic Wound Care Manage Res. 2014;1:3–9.

3. Thomas JM, Cooney LM, Fried TR. Systematic review: health-related characteristics of elderly hospitalized adults and nursing home residents associated with short-term mortality. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2013;61(6):902–911.

4. Jaul E, Calderon-Margalit R. Systemic factors and mortality in elderly patients with pressure ulcers. Int Wound J. 2013;12(3):254–259.

5. Cuddigan J, Ayello E, Sussman C, eds. Pressure Ulcers in America: Prevalence, Incidence, and Implications for the Future. Reston, VA: National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel;2001.

6. Mitchell SL, Teno JM, Kiely DK, et al. The clinical course of advanced dementia. N Engl J Med. 2009;361(16):1529–1538.

7. Coleman S, Nixon J, Keen J, et al. A new pressure ulcer conceptual framework. J Adv Nurs. 2014;70(10): 2222–2234.

8. Bouten CV, Oomens CW, Baaijens FP, Bader DL. The etiology of pressure ulcers: skin deep or muscle bound? Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2003;84(4):616–619.

9. Coleman S, Gorecki C, Nelson EA, et al. Patient risk factors for pressure ulcer development: systematic review. Int J Nurs Study. 2013;50(7):974–1003.

10. Chauhan VS, Goel S, Kumar P, Srivastava S, Shukla VK.. The prevalence of pressure ulcers in hospitalized patients in a university hospital in India. J Wound Care. 2005;14(1):36–37.

11. Keast DH, Fraser C. Treatment of chronic skin ulcers in individuals with anemia of chronic disease using recombinant human erythropoietin (EPO); review of four cases. Ostomy Wound Manage. 2004;50(10):64–70.

12. Fuoco U, Scivoletto G, Pace A, Vona VU, Castellano V. Anaemia and serum protein alteration in patients with pressure ulcers. Spinal Cord. 1997;35(1):58–60.

13. De Domenico I, Ward DM, Kaplan J. Hepcidin regulation: ironing out the details. J Clin Invest. 2007;117(7):1755–1758.

14. Mitchell SL, Kiely DK, Hamel MB. Dying with advanced dementia in the nursing home. Arch Intern Med. 2004;164(3):321–326.

15. Khan TK, Alkon DL. An internally controlled peripheral biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease: Erk1 and Erk2 responses to the inflammatory signal bradykinin. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006;103(35):13203–13207.

16. Idiaquez J, Roman GC. Autonomic dysfunction in neurodegenerative dementias. J Neurol Sci. 2011;305(1-2):22–27.

17. Emre M. Dementia associated with Parkinson’s disease. Lancet Neurol. 2003;2(4):229–237.

18. Aarsland D, Andersen K, Larsen JP, et al. Risk of dementia in Parkinson’s disease – a community-based, prospective study. Neurology. 2001;56(6):730–736.

19. Hyun S, Li X, Vermillion B, Newton C, et al. Body mass index and pressure ulcers: improved predictability of pressure ulcers in intensive care patients. Am J Crit Care. 2014;23(6):494–500.

20. Ek AC, Unosson M, Larsson J, Von Schenck H, Bjurulf P. The development and healing of pressure sores related to the nutritional state. Clin Nutr. 1991;10(5):245-250.

21. Thomas DR. Role of nutrition in the treatment and prevention of pressure ulcers. Nutr Clin Pract. 2014;29(4)466–472.

22. Tresch DD, Sims FH, Duthie EH, Goldstein MD, Lane PS. Clinical characteristics of patients in the persistent vegetative state. Arch Intern Med. 1991;151(5):930–932.