Plans to promote participant retention and complete follow-up {18b}
RECRUITMENT
Screening patients to assess their risk of PI within 36h of hospital admission and expected hospital length of stay ≥24h following recruitment and informed written consent (in person or via a proxy) increases participant retention and enables at least one outcome assessment (i.e. assessment of a de-identified photograph by a blinded outcome assessor). Given the busy nature of acute clinical settings, ResNs often visit participants several times a day to collect outcome data.