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Stavros Stefanopoulos¹, Qiong Qiu¹, Khalid Alshaibani¹

¹Department of Surgery, University of Toledo, College of Medicine and Life Sciences, Toledo, OH, USA.

The American Surgeon

|August 11, 2021

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Health professionals are largely dissatisfied with the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel (NPIAP) staging system, finding it inadequate for clinical assessment and management. They desire a more comprehensive system that reflects healing progress and guides interventions.

Keywords:

pressure ulcer wound healing

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Area of Science:

Wound Care
Clinical Assessment
Healthcare Quality Improvement

Background:

The National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel (NPIAP) staging system is widely used for pressure injury documentation.
Assessing health professionals' satisfaction with the current NPIAP system is crucial for improving patient care standards.

Purpose of the Study:

To evaluate health professionals' satisfaction with the NPIAP staging system.
To identify areas of inadequacy in the current system and gather preferences for an improved classification system.

Main Methods:

A paper survey was distributed to attendees of a national wound care meeting.
88 surveys were completed, assessing satisfaction with the NPIAP system.
Data were analyzed using SPSS to tabulate results.

Main Results:

A 50% response rate was achieved, with 95% of respondents using the NPIAP system for documentation.
75.3% of participants felt a better staging system was needed.
Key criticisms included inadequate reflection of clinical condition (63.5%), poor reproducibility (61.6%), and inability to suggest management (43.9%).
Ideal system features included tissue necrosis, depth, discharge documentation, osteomyelitis, and infection status.

Conclusions:

Healthcare professionals expressed significant dissatisfaction with the NPIAP staging system.
There is a clear demand for a revised classification system that better supports clinical decision-making and patient management in pressure injury care.