Hot Topics in Pressure Injury: Skin Failure, Staging, and Regulations

Pressure injuries remain a major quality focus for institutions and regulatory bodies. Despite years of discussion, there is still no standardized or widely adopted definition of skin failure, and no ICD-10 codes currently exist for this condition. Moreover, the National Quality Forum and CMS continue to misunderstand pressure injury etiology, leading to increasingly stringent reporting requirements that may negatively affect facilities—and potentially extend into home care. This session will examine these critical issues, including updates on staging, reclassification of harm events, and how these evolving standards impact clinical practice.