Wounds that exhibit delayed healing add extraordinary clinical, economic, and personal burdens to patients, as well as to increasing financial costs to health systems. New interventions designed to ease such burdens for patients with cancer, renal, or ophthalmologic conditions are often cleared for approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) using multiple endpoints but the requirem...

OBJECTIVES To examine the feasibility and acceptance of teledermatology for wound management for patients with leg ulcers by home care nurses and evaluate the reduction of costs and the acceptance of teledermatology by patients and home care nurses. DESIGN Case series of telemonitored patients with leg ulcers including cost-effectiveness analysis. SETTING Home monitoring by home care nurses...

    Home health care is a wide range of health care services that can be given in your home for an illness or injury (1). During last decade, home health care is taken into consideration seriously. The concept of home health care began in the 1850's when traveling health care professionals provided in-home visits to patients in need of health care and unable to seek such care on their own (2). ...

BACKGROUND About 15% to 25% of people with diabetes will develop a foot ulcer. These wounds are often resistant to healing; therefore, people with diabetes experience lower limb amputation at about 20 times the rate of people without diabetes. If an ulcer does not heal with standard wound care, other therapeutic interventions are offered, one of which is hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT). Howeve...

Providing effective wound care to clients within the Australian context poses a number of challenges. For the clinician keeping abreast of continually changing arrays of products and supporting evidence is often daunting. For the client making sense of often conflicting advice and managing the personal costs of their treatment poses a significant challenge. For the health care provider providin...

Definition: Integration = an act or instance of combining into a complete whole. The Integrated Complex Wound Care Team comprises: the Tissue Viability Service, The Lower Limb Service and the Foot Health / Podiatry Wound Care Team. Each specific, detached service consists of skilled, highly trained health professionals who provide expertise and management of patients with wounds: ○ The Tissue V...