How should medical professionals document a healing bed sore?

Rather that using a reverse staging description of bed sores, professional in long-term care facilities (nursing homes and hospitals) should use detailed written descriptors to describe the size of the bed sore and evidence that the wound is healing. The benefit of using descriptors to document a healing bed sore is that they are are more accurate than mere staging. Re-categorizing a stage 4 bed sore to a lower stage can frequently be a misrepresentation because the advanced bed sores are never able to regenerate the muscle, fat and skin lost to the original would.

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Jonathan Rosenfeld is a lawyer who represents people injured in nursing homes and long-term care facilities. With an emphasis on the representation of the most vulnerable members of society, Rosenfeld Injury Lawyers regularly represents the elderly and people with disabilities in cases involving the development of pressure sores during an admission to a nursing home, hospital or assisted living facility.

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