In a recent survey of wound care professionals who work in nursing homes, almost half reported observing wound documentation that was inaccurate and led to adverse patient outcomes including sepsis, ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . There has been litigation growth around wound care. Physicians should thoroughly examine and document wound ...
Wound care is definitely critical to the overall healthcare industry, medical clinicians, and patients. The ability to assess a wound with pinpoint accuracy and document healing, infection, and other ...
Pressure ulcers, or bedsores as they are commonly referred to, are no laughing matter. As a paper published last week points out, bedsores are a "leading iatrogenic cause of death in developed ...
What is a hard-to-heal wound? There are many definitions of hard-to-heal. More conventionally, it's based on underlying etiology of the wound, but in practice it's any wound that has not healed within ...
The presence of bandages made from gauze or cotton wool for the treatment of wounds is considered a standard supply for every home, hospital and first aid kit. Wound healing. Image Credit: Tong ...
Wound care is definitely critical to the overall healthcare industry, medical clinicians, and patients. The ability to assess a wound with pinpoint accuracy and document healing, infection, and other ...