Implementation impact: Improving clinical outcomes related to pressure injuries
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This Evidence Booster examines the impact of implementing RNAO’s Assessment and Management of Pressure Injuries for the Interprofessional Team (2016) best practice guideline (BPG) in a hospital in Chile, South America.
Hospital del Trabajador, a complex-care hospital in Santiago, Chile, demonstrated a decrease in the percentage of persons who developed one or more new pressure injuries and an increase in the percentage of persons who received a risk assessment for developing pressure injuries.
