A new study demonstrates the effectiveness of the Braden QD scale for identifying hospitalized pediatric patients at risk for developing immobility-related and medical device-related pressure injuries.
The Braden Q Scale is often used to help identify pressure injury risk in pediatric patients aged 2 weeks to 8 years.
In the study from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (Penn Nursing) and published in The Journal of Pediatrics, a new, simplified Braden QD Scale now describes such risk among a broader, more diverse sample of pediatric patients typically cared for in acute care environments.
“The Braden QD Scale provides acute care pediatric clinicians with one instrument to predict both immobility- and device-related pressure injuries across diverse age and clinical populations,” says lead-author Martha A. Q. Curley, PhD, RN, FAAN, the Ruth M. Colket Endowed Chair in Pediatric Nursing at Penn Nursing and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, in a media release from University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing.
“This instrument may be helpful in preventing iatrogenic injury, in facilitating quality monitoring of care, and in helping to guide resource allocation in the prevention of HAPI in hospitalized infants and children,” she adds.
[Source(s): University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Science Daily]
