Stone A, Brienza D, Call E, Fontaine R, Goldberg M, Hong KZ, Jordan R, Lachenbruch C, LaFleche P, Sylvia C, et al.
Journal of wound, ostomy, and continence nursing : official publication of The Wound, Ostomy an.... Date of publication 2015 Sep 1;volume 42(5):445-9.
1. J Wound Ostomy Continence Nurs. 2015 Sep-Oct;42(5):445-9. doi:
10.1097/WON.0000000000000172.
Standardizing Support Surface Testing and Reporting: A National Pressure Ulcer
Advisory Panel Executive Summary.
Stone A(1), Brienza D, Call E, Fontaine R, Goldberg M, Hong KZ, Jordan R,
Lachenbruch C, LaFleche P, Sylvia C.
Author information:
(1)Arthur Stone, DPM, MedNexus, Inc. Greenville, South Carolina. David M.
Brienza, PhD, University of Pittsburgh, Dept. of Rehabilitation Science and
Technology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Evan Call, MS, EC Services, Inc.
Centerville, Utah. Rick Fontaine, Tempur-Sealy International, Lexington,
Kentucky. Margaret Goldberg, Delray Medical Center, Delray, Florida. KZ Hong,
PhD, ArjoHuntleigh Inc. San Antonio, Texas. Rosalyn Jordan, Joerns/RecoverCare
Charlotte, North Carolina. Charlie Lachenbruch, PhD, Hill-Rom Corp., Batesville,
Indiana. Patrick LaFleche, Eng, Stryker Medical Corp., Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Cynthia Sylvia, MSc, Stryker Medical Corp., Kalamazoo, Michigan.
In 2001, the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel's Research Committee
identified the need to create uniform terminology, test methods, and reporting
technical standards for support surfaces. As a result, the S3I Committee was
formed and initial meetings of interested stakeholders who included clinicians,
researchers, academics, manufacturers, providers, and regulators were held. The
group's initial goal was to (1) establish common language to facilitate
understanding by developing standardized terminology for describing and
discussing support surfaces, (2) establish a suite of standardized tests of
performance capable of repeatedly, reliably, and accurately reporting upon
characteristics common to all support surfaces that are believed to be related to
the extrinsic risk factors associated with skin breakdown, as indicated by the
literature to date, and (3) identify and standardize methods to evaluate the
effective life of a support surface. The purpose of this article was to summarize
the current status of the effort of the Support Surface Standards Initiative
(S3I) Committee to identify and standardize methods to evaluate the many
characteristic factors that determine the effective life of a support surface.
DOI: 10.1097/WON.0000000000000172
PMID: 26336041 [Indexed for MEDLINE]
