Bedsores

Be alert for pressure wounds, also known as bedsores, particularly in long hospital stays. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The bed essentially imitates the movements of a healthy person during sleep so bedridden patients are less likely to develop "decubitus ulcers," otherwise known as bedsores. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Some 1,446 died suffering with pressure ulcers, otherwise know as bedsores, while 4,866 died with septicaemia, or blood poisoning. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Pressure sores, also called bedsores, commonly plague seniors who are bedridden or rely on ❋ By MICHAEL J. BERENS (2010)

The university's Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Research Institute, based at the Jordanstown campus, is investigating how pressure ulcers, formerly known as bedsores can be prevented. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Pressure ulcers, also known as bedsores, are very painful and can lead to serious health problems. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Even before the law's passage, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services — now headed by Dr. Donald Berwick, a stalwart in the patient-safety movement — announced it would no longer reimburse hospitals for the cost of preventable complications, such as bedsores and wrong-type blood transfusions. ❋ Unknown (2010)

WASHINGTON -- The government won't save much from Medicare's year-old policy of refusing to pay hospitals 'extra costs to treat hospital-acquired infections and injuries such as bedsores, a new study concludes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I can’t find any external injuries beyond bedsores, which is to be expected, and internally there are no abnormalities or injuries, though it’s difficult under these conditions to tell for certain. ❋ William James Henry (2010)

And hospitalizing frail, elderly patients often results in unintended problems, such as bedsores, infections, and decline because of immobilization. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It has stopped reimbursing hospitals for about a half-dozen conditions acquired in the hospital, such as bedsores, and the agency is moving toward basing payments on the numbers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The possibility that she’s going to be unhappy as she grows larger and is unable to be held or carried, the possibility that she’s going to develop physical complications such as bedsores from not being turned as often, and the possibility that she’ll experience what *she’ll perceive as trauma from menstrual pain, pap smears, mammograms, breast exams, etc. seem like much greater possibilities to me. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Wall Street Journal reports: "The government won't save much from Medicare's year-old policy of refusing to pay hospitals 'extra costs to treat hospital-acquired infections and injuries such as bedsores, a new study concludes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Another project, to help cut bedsores among people in two care homes in Shipley, West Yorkshire, had helped save about £90,000 over six months and improved their quality of life. ❋ Unknown (2011)