Volume 48 - Issue 3 - March, 2002
Industry Insider
12/12/2014
NAHC comments on LMRP wound care draft
Cahaba Government Benefit Administrators (GBA), one of four fiscal intermediaries for Medicare, issued a draft local medical review policy (LMRP) entitled, "Wound Care for Home Health." The National...
NAHC comments on LMRP wound care draft
Cahaba Government Benefit Administrators (GBA), one of four fiscal intermediaries for Medicare, issued a draft local medical review policy (LMRP) entitled, "Wound Care for Home Health." The National...
NAHC comments on LMRP wound care...
12/12/2014
Wound Management & Prevention
Department
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3M Health Care - Booth 119
3M Skin Health offers a solution-based approach to help manage the cost and quality of patient care. Visit us at the Symposium to learn more about long-wear dressing solutions for sacral-coccyx ulcer management...
3M Health Care - Booth 119
3M Skin Health offers a solution-based approach to help manage the cost and quality of patient care. Visit us at the Symposium to learn more about long-wear dressing solutions for sacral-coccyx ulcer management...
3M Health Care - Booth 119
...
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Wound Management & Prevention
Department
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History and Wound Description
Ms. M, a 69-year-old patient, developed shingles localized to her right back and shoulder area in February 2000. She complained of severe pain. On examination, she had an area of multiple partial- and...
History and Wound Description
Ms. M, a 69-year-old patient, developed shingles localized to her right back and shoulder area in February 2000. She complained of severe pain. On examination, she had an area of multiple partial- and...
History and Wound Description
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Wound Management & Prevention
Special Report
12/12/2014
When your mother is a nurse and you are Vice Chairman of the Board for Johnson & Johnson, corporate responsibility calls for more than a Band Aid(R), as James Lenehan can affirm. In response to the growing shortage of nurses, Lenehan,...
When your mother is a nurse and you are Vice Chairman of the Board for Johnson & Johnson, corporate responsibility calls for more than a Band Aid(R), as James Lenehan can affirm. In response to the growing shortage of nurses, Lenehan,...
When your mother is a nurse...
12/12/2014
Wound Management & Prevention
Column
08/27/2014
The establishment of private and public prospectively paid health insurance plans has forced providers to look for more creative ways to streamline evidence-based care and control costs. One of the first places many providers look to trim...
The establishment of private and public prospectively paid health insurance plans has forced providers to look for more creative ways to streamline evidence-based care and control costs. One of the first places many providers look to trim...
The establishment of private...
08/27/2014
Wound Management & Prevention
Department
Letters to the Editor
12/12/2014
Dear Editor,
With much interest, we read the article, "Prevalence and Incidence Studies of Pressure Ulcers in Two Long-Term Care Facilities in Canada" (Ostomy/Wound Management, 2001;47[11]:28-34). Studies in which both the prevalence and...
Dear Editor,
With much interest, we read the article, "Prevalence and Incidence Studies of Pressure Ulcers in Two Long-Term Care Facilities in Canada" (Ostomy/Wound Management, 2001;47[11]:28-34). Studies in which both the prevalence and...
Dear Editor,
With much...
12/12/2014
Wound Management & Prevention
Feature
Empirical Studies
08/27/2014
It's official. A crisis exists in nursing homes, fueled by critical staffing shortages that a recent General Accounting Office (GAO) report indicates are expected to become more serious as the population ages and the demand for nursing...
It's official. A crisis exists in nursing homes, fueled by critical staffing shortages that a recent General Accounting Office (GAO) report indicates are expected to become more serious as the population ages and the demand for nursing...
It's official. A crisis...
08/27/2014
Wound Management & Prevention
Empirical Studies
08/27/2014
An estimated 5% to 6% of the population of the United States has diabetes.1 A common complication of the disease is plantar ulceration secondary to sensory neuropathy and the repetitive stress of walking.2
Nonhealing foot ulcerations...
An estimated 5% to 6% of the population of the United States has diabetes.1 A common complication of the disease is plantar ulceration secondary to sensory neuropathy and the repetitive stress of walking.2
Nonhealing foot ulcerations...
An estimated 5% to 6% of the...
08/27/2014
Wound Management & Prevention
Empirical Studies
08/27/2014
Approximately one-third of community-dwelling individuals over 65 years of age will experience a fall and one-half of these individuals will become chronic fallers.1-6 Chronic falling has been defined in the literature as falling two or...
Approximately one-third of community-dwelling individuals over 65 years of age will experience a fall and one-half of these individuals will become chronic fallers.1-6 Chronic falling has been defined in the literature as falling two or...
Approximately one-third of...
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Wound Management & Prevention
Column
Editorial
08/27/2014
Once upon a time, we lived in a world where clinicians provided patient care and researchers explored new ways to provide that care. Editors read the work they received and publishers published. Also in this world, patients presumed the...
Once upon a time, we lived in a world where clinicians provided patient care and researchers explored new ways to provide that care. Editors read the work they received and publishers published. Also in this world, patients presumed the...
Once upon a time, we lived in...
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Wound Management & Prevention
