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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 28.
Published in final edited form as: Nurs Res. 2015 Sep-Oct;64(5):361–371. doi: 10.1097/NNR.0000000000000112

Table 1.

Number of Available Episodes with Pressure Ulcers by Unit (N = 42,403)

Hospital and Unit Number of
Nurses by
Unita
Total
Episodes
of Care by
Unit
Pressure
Ulcers
Present on
Admission
(APU)
Hospital-
Acquired
Pressure
Ulcers
(HAPUs)
LCH1b: General Medicine 113 5640 194 46
LCH1: Medical Intensive Care
   Unit (MICU)
54 1228 27 13
LCH1: Gerontology 80 9565 91 31
SCHc: Medicine 63 4881 1 1
LCH2d: Medicine 59 3432 16 6
LCH2: Gerontology 25 1673 41 13
UHe: Neuro Surgery 181 8216 2 3
UH: Cardiac Surgery 210 6112 59 59
UH: Intensive Care Unit
  (ICU)
66 1656 254 39
Total 787 42403 685 211
a

The sum of the number of nurses for all units is actually 851 due to nurses who worked on multiple units. 787 reflect the total # of unique nurses.

b

LCH1 = Large Community Hospital 1

c

SCH = Small Community Hospital

d

LCH2 = Large Community Hospital 2

e

UH = University Hospital