Community Acquired Pressure Injuries in a Work-Related Spinal Cord Injury Population: Problem Characterization

Barry A. B. White

Executive Summary

A retrospective analysis of observational data was conducted to assess the cost of community-acquired pressure injuries in a case series of individuals with work-related spinal cord injury (participants) supported by the Workers’ Compensation Board of British Columbia (WorksafeBC) as well as the benefits of preventative and early pressure injury intervention. WorkSafeBC has partnered with Access Community Therapists Ltd. (Access) to address the problem of pressure injuries. The community-based intervention provided to participants featured comprehensive assessment by experienced health care professionals to detect pressure injuries and risk of pressure injury as well as to inform WorkSafeBC on the supply of health care to avoid excess or excessive human and economic cost associated with avoidable pressure injuries and progression of existing pressure injuries.

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* Note: This article was originally released in 2017 and may contain references to Praxis as Rick Hansen Institute or RHI.