Hospitalists' Needs Assessment and Perceived Barriers in Wound Care Management: A Quality Improvement Project.

ABSTRACT: The purpose of this quality improvement project was to determine hospitalists' knowledge, practices, and perspectives related to management of pressure injuries and neuropathic/diabetic foot complications (having a foot ulcer or subsequent development of a foot infection because of a foot ulcer). We also sought to identify resources for and knowledge-based barriers to management of these wounds. This quality improvement effort targeted an interdisciplinary group of 55 hospitalists in internal medicine that consisted of 8 nurse practitioners, 10 physician assistants, and 38 physicians. The site of this initiative was the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, a 342-bed academic hospital located in the mid-Atlantic United States (Baltimore Maryland). The first phase of our quality improvement

SUBMITTER: Walker CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6407638 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar/Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature