AIM The aim of this study was to describe the accuracy and quality of nursing documentation of the prevalence, risk factors and prevention of pressure ulcers, and compare retrospective audits of nursing documentation with patient examinations conducted in nursing homes. DESIGN This study used a cross-sectional descriptive design. METHOD A retrospective audit of 155 patients' records and pat...

Pressure ulcers continue to be a significant problem for patients and healthcare facilities. Since 1989, results from the International Pressure Ulcer Prevalence surveys--observational, cross-sectional cohort studies--conducted by Hill-Rom, Batesville, Ind, have been used to document aggregate prevalence rates and provide acute care, long-term acute care, and long-term care facilities with inte...

Suture Techniques that Restore Normal Anteroposterior (AP) Laxity of the Knee After ACL Transection: An Ex Vivo Study Braden C. Fleming3, James L. Carey2, Kurt P. Spindler2, Martha M. Murray1 1Dept of Orthopaedic Surgery, Children’s Hospital, Boston, Boston, MA; 2Vanderbilt Sports Medicine, Vanderbilt School of Medicine, Nashville, TN; 3Dept of Orthopaedic Research, Brown Medical School, Provid...

Using resolutions of singularities introduced by Cortez and a method for calculating Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials due to Polo, we prove the conjecture of Billey and Braden characterizing permutations w with Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomial Pid,w(q) = 1 + q for some h.

Colin McManus Mobile Robotics Group, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK e-mail: [email protected] Paul Furgale Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland e-mail: [email protected] Braden Stenning and Timothy D. Barfoot Autonomous Space Robotics Lab, University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies, Toronto, Canada e-mail: [email protected], tim.barfoot@utor...

Objective: to assess pressure injury development and its association with care complexity in patients treated at an emergency service. Method: a prospective cohort observational study conducted from August October 2020 the unit public hospital southwest Bahia, Brazil. A specific form created for study, Braden Scale Perroca Classification Instrument were used data collection. The analyzed by mea...

Objective: This study aimed to determine the incidence and risk factors of perioperative pressure injury (PI) in surgical patients. Material Methods: descriptive, prospective, comparative was conducted with 101 patients who underwent general surgery a training research hospital İstanbul between September 2018 June 2019. Data were collected using 'Patient Form,' 'Braden Scale,' 'International Pr...

BACKGROUND The ability to assess the risk of a patient developing pressure sores is a major issue in pressure sore prevention. Risk assessment scales should be valid, reliable and easy to use in clinical practice. AIM To develop further a risk assessment scale, for predicting pressure sore development and, in addition, to present the validity and reliability of this scale. METHODS The risk ...

X iv :f un ct -a n/ 95 08 00 2v 2 1 7 A pr 1 99 6 THE GENERAL ANALYTIC SOLUTION OF A FUNCTIONAL EQUATION OF ADDITION TYPE H. W. Braden Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. e-mail: [email protected] V. M. Buchstaber National Scientific and Research Institute of Physico-Technical and Radio-Technical Measurement, VNIIFTRI, Mendeleevo, Moscow Region 14157...