NATIONAL PRESSURE ULCER ADVISORY PANEL RECOMMENDATION FOR PRESSURE ULCER NOMENCLATURE CHANGE

Resolution and Position Statements
Pressure Ulcers
Physician
March 5, 2017

AMDA- THE SOCIETY FOR POST-ACUTE AND LONG-TERM CARE MEDICINE


RESOLUTION I 17

 

SUBJECT: National Pressure ulcer advisory panel recommendation for pressure ulcer nomenclature change

INTRODUCED BY: missouri association for long term care PRACTITIONERS AND LIABILITY work group

INTRODUCED ON:  MARCH 2017

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that AMDA, The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (Society), due to foreseeable unintended litigation and regulatory consequences, oppose the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel recommended change in nomenclature from “pressure ulcer” to “pressure injury;”

AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Society oppose changing nomenclature for ICD-10 diagnoses from “pressure ulcer” to “pressure injury;”

AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, the Society request that the American Medical Association and other interested professional organizations formally oppose a change in nomenclature from “pressure ulcer” to “pressure injury” in the ICD-10 and other diagnostic catalogues and classification systems.