WoundRounds now allows wound care clinicians to use a built-in tool for scheduling Braden Risk Assessments as part of efforts to prevent pressure ulcers. The Braden Scale for Predicting Pressure Sore ...

A newly developed alternative pressure ulcer risk assessment tool may reduce nurse workload duplication compared to the more widely used Braden Scale, Canadian researchers have found. The study ...

Barbara Braden became known internationally for developing a tool in the 1980s that’s widely used in hospitals and nursing homes to assess and predict patients’ likelihood of developing pressure sores ...

A lack of conclusive evidence indicating which risk factors are important in the development of pressure ulcers means that prevention strategies in clinical practice vary (Vance, 2002). The Department ...

A recent study found pressure ulcers in intensive care patients may have been either over- or undertreated because a widely used tool may not be sensitive enough for critical care. Subscribe today for ...

The Braden Scale independently predicted early disability-related outcomes and greater length of hospital stay following liver transplantation, according to a recently published study. “Although ...