Chamblee TB, Pasek TA, Caillouette CN, Stellar JJ, Quigley SM, Curley MAQ, et al.
The American journal of nursing. Date of publication 2018 Nov 1;volume 118(11):34-43.
1. Am J Nurs. 2018 Nov;118(11):34-43. doi: 10.1097/01.NAJ.0000547638.92908.de.
CE: How to Predict Pediatric Pressure Injury Risk with the Braden QD Scale.
Chamblee TB(1), Pasek TA, Caillouette CN, Stellar JJ, Quigley SM, Curley MAQ.
Author information:
(1)Tracy B. Chamblee is a clinical nurse specialist and senior director of
quality and patient safety at Children's Health, Dallas, TX. Tracy A. Pasek is a
clinical nurse specialist and systems analyst in the Information Services
Division at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. Catherine N.
Caillouette is a pediatric NP in the Department of Plastic Surgery at Boston
Children's Hospital. Sandy M. Quigley is a clinical specialist in the
Departments of Nursing and General Surgery at Boston Children's Hospital. Judith
J. Stellar is a wound, ostomy, continence NP in the Departments of Nursing and
General Surgery at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Martha A. Q. Curley
is the Ruth M. Colket Endowed Chair in Pediatric Nursing at the Children's
Hospital of Philadelphia, and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania
School of Nursing, Philadelphia. Contact author: Martha A. Q. Curley,
curley@nursing.upenn.edu. For the original research project that produced the
Braden QD Scale, Martha A. Q. Curley and Sandy M. Quigley received unrestricted
grants from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses and the Wound,
Ostomy, and Continence Nurses Society Foundation, respectively. The authors and
planners have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or
otherwise.
: The Braden QD Scale is a conceptually based, pediatric-specific, risk
assessment instrument that reliably predicts both immobility-related and medical
device-related pressure injuries in the pediatric acute care environment. A
revision and simplification of the commonly used Braden Q Scale, the Braden QD
Scale can be used to assess risk among the wide range of infants, children, and
adolescents commonly treated in acute care environments. As part of a
comprehensive program to prevent hospital-acquired pressure injuries, the Braden
QD Scale promotes patient safety, quality of care and care monitoring, and
effective resource use in pediatric hospitalized patients. The authors provide
guidance on using the Braden QD Scale to assess pediatric patients and score
their risk of pressure-related injury in numerous scenarios frequently
encountered in acute care practice.
DOI: 10.1097/01.NAJ.0000547638.92908.de
PMID: 30325747 [Indexed for MEDLINE]
