What is it about?
The article considers whether pressure damage is a key indicator of overall care quality.
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Why is it important?
It is important as pressure damage causes so much distress to people and uses so many healthcare resources.
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Pressure damage is generally avoidable harm. Grade three and four damage should be a rare occurrence and never accepted as 'one of those things'.
Mrs Terri Salt
Care Quality Commision
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This page is a summary of: Pressure Damage as an Indicator of the Quality of Care, British Journal of Nursing, October 2020, Mark Allen Group,
DOI: 10.12968/bjon.2020.29.19.1094.
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