[How to evaluate nursing procedures for bedsores, or decubitus ulcers by means of a codified and computerized record-keeping system].

Bedsores, or decubitus ulcers, are a very serious health problem in our society which has more elderly people all the time. Clinical files, whether they record preventive care or actual treatment and follow-up analysis of results, are a challenge for nursing practice. Therefore, the authors developed a simple, easy to use and fill out document: a "File to record the evolution, care and treatment of bedsores". Treatment methods are recorded by means of previously designated numerical codes corresponding to the treatment methods carried out which enables their subsequent computerization and makes it possible to analyze them. The results obtained permit nursing professionals to analyze work tasks assigned, treatment quality and the efficiency of procedures and products used: furthermore, this file enables nurses to elaborate a description of an elderly patient having multiple pathologies, a target for these lesions, and to establish a nursing treatment procedure especially adapted to the required treatment.