New article from the joint EPUAP & EWMA Pressure Ulcer prevention & patient safety advocacy project focusses on the increasing attention toward the issues of healthcare evaluation. One factor that has been identified as central for improving the quality of evaluation is the use of data to measure performance.

The new article Pressure ulcer monitoring: a process of evidence-based practice, data sharing and joint efforts investigates methologies for measuring prevalence of pressure ulcers and addressing the lack of a uniform methodology in Europe for collecting the necessary data that would sufficiently help monitor patients with this condition.

The full article is available for download here.

This article is the latest of six articles from the joint EPUAP & EWMA Pressure Ulcer prevention and patient safety advocacy project. Read more about the project and download all six articles here.