JAMDA
Volume 10, Issue 2 , Pages 141-144 , February 2009

Pressure Ulcer PUSH Score and Traditional Nursing Assessment in Nursing Home Residents: Do They Correlate?

  • Erica George-Saintilus, MD

      Affiliations

    • Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to Erica George-Saintilus, MD, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, 270-05 76th Avenue, New Hyde Park, NY 11040
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  • Barbara Tommasulo, MD

      Affiliations

    • Cold Spring Hills Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation, Woodbury, NY
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  • Charles E. Cal, MBA, MS, RN, CPHQ

      Affiliations

    • Krasnoff Quality Management Institute, Great Neck, NY
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  • Roshan Hussain, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Krasnoff Quality Management Institute, Great Neck, NY
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  • Nimmy Mathew, MA

      Affiliations

    • Krasnoff Quality Management Institute, Great Neck, NY
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  • Yosef Dlugacz, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Krasnoff Quality Management Institute, Great Neck, NY
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  • Renee Pekmezaris, PhD

      Affiliations

    • North Shore-LIJ Health System, Great Neck, NY
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  • Gisele Wolf-Klein, MD

      Affiliations

    • Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY

  • Image Result

    Performance matrix illustrating overall level of agreement between PUSH and traditional assessment method. Note: The size of the bubble corresponds to the number of observations falling in each cluste

    Performance matrix illustrating overall level of agreement between PUSH and traditional assessment method. Note: The size of the bubble corresponds to the number of observations falling in each cluster.

 None of the authors have any financial interest in the study, nor do they have any conflict of interest.

PII: S1525-8610(08)00416-7

doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2008.10.014

JAMDA
Volume 10, Issue 2 , Pages 141-144 , February 2009

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