The Nursing Home Severity Index and Application to Pressure Injury Risk: Measure Development and Validation Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

An assessment tool is needed to measure the clinical severity of nursing home residents to improve the prediction of outcomes and provide guidance in treatment planning.

Objective

This study aims to describe the development of the Nursing Home Severity Index, a clinical severity measure targeted for nursing home residents with the potential to be individually tailored to different outcomes, such as pressure injury.

Methods

A retrospective nonexperimental design was used to develop and validate the Nursing Home Severity Index using secondary data from 9 nursing homes participating in the 12-month preintervention period of the Turn Everyone and Move for Ulcer Prevention (TEAM-UP) pragmatic clinical trial. Expert opinion and clinical literature were used to id

SUBMITTER: Yap TL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9951072 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature