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Volume 51 - Issue 5 - May, 2005

Feature

Empirical Studies
Clinical Quality Indicators of Venous Leg Ulcers: Development, Feasibility, and Reliability
05/01/2005
    Studies on venous leg ulcer patients show large variations in the use of proven efficacious diagnostic and therapeutic modalities.1-4 This suggests that the quality of medical technical care — eg, provision of appropriate prevention,...
    Studies on venous leg ulcer patients show large variations in the use of proven efficacious diagnostic and therapeutic modalities.1-4 This suggests that the quality of medical technical care — eg, provision of appropriate prevention,...
    Studies on venous leg ulcer...
05/01/2005
Wound Management & Prevention
Empirical Studies
Use of the PUSH Tool to Measure Venous Ulcer Healing
05/01/2005
    Wound assessment is critical to monitoring the effectiveness of treatment in chronic wounds. Accurate and comprehensive wound assessment depends on meticulous and consistent clinical observations and quantitative measurements. Regular...
    Wound assessment is critical to monitoring the effectiveness of treatment in chronic wounds. Accurate and comprehensive wound assessment depends on meticulous and consistent clinical observations and quantitative measurements. Regular...
    Wound assessment is critical...
05/01/2005
Wound Management & Prevention
Empirical Studies
Venous Ulcers: Pathophysiology and Treatment Options—Part 1
05/01/2005
    A chronic wound, as defined by the Wound Healing Society, is a wound that has not healed in a timely fashion.1 Factors that affect “timely” include, but are not limited to, patient age, wound location, and wound origin/cause. Many...
    A chronic wound, as defined by the Wound Healing Society, is a wound that has not healed in a timely fashion.1 Factors that affect “timely” include, but are not limited to, patient age, wound location, and wound origin/cause. Many...
    A chronic wound, as defined...
05/01/2005
Wound Management & Prevention
Empirical Studies
Venous Ulcers: Pathophysiology and Treatment Options—Part 2
05/01/2005
Part 1 Grafting     When dressings and medical management fail or when rapid healing is essential, skin grafting is an excellent alternative. The first recorded skin grafts were performed in India and Egypt. More recently, skin grafting has...
Part 1 Grafting     When dressings and medical management fail or when rapid healing is essential, skin grafting is an excellent alternative. The first recorded skin grafts were performed in India and Egypt. More recently, skin grafting has...
Part 1 Grafting     When...
05/01/2005
Wound Management & Prevention

Column

Guest Editorial
Guest Editorial: The Politics of Influence
05/01/2005
    My local newspaper, Long Island Newsday, does a fair job of keeping me abreast of happenings on my home front. It also features a few highly polished gems, such as Saul Friedman’s “Gray Matters,” a weekly column for senior citizens....
    My local newspaper, Long Island Newsday, does a fair job of keeping me abreast of happenings on my home front. It also features a few highly polished gems, such as Saul Friedman’s “Gray Matters,” a weekly column for senior citizens....
    My local newspaper, Long...
05/01/2005
Wound Management & Prevention
Department
Special to OWM: Alliance Successful in Educating the MCAC on Usual Care of Chronic Wounds
05/01/2005
    The Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders (“Alliance”) provided speakers with specific and critical wound care expertise to the Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee (MCAC) meeting, held March 29, which enabled the Committee to make positive...
    The Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders (“Alliance”) provided speakers with specific and critical wound care expertise to the Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee (MCAC) meeting, held March 29, which enabled the Committee to make positive...
    The Alliance of Wound Care...
05/01/2005
Wound Management & Prevention
Department
My Scope of Practice: Confessions of a New Kid on the Block
05/01/2005
    Robbie Sharp, BSN, RN, CWOCN, EMT-P, is fairly new to wound care. But in barely more than a year, she developed and implemented a plan to identify and manage wound care patients, helped implement a wound care group, helped plan and...
    Robbie Sharp, BSN, RN, CWOCN, EMT-P, is fairly new to wound care. But in barely more than a year, she developed and implemented a plan to identify and manage wound care patients, helped implement a wound care group, helped plan and...
    Robbie Sharp, BSN, RN,...
05/01/2005
Wound Management & Prevention
Column
The Ostomy Files: What is Preventive Ostomy Care?
05/01/2005
    Preventive medicine is at the forefront of payors’, regulators’, and providers’ agendas. It is important to examine what may be done to prevent the most common complications associated with ostomy surgery — complications that drive cost,...
    Preventive medicine is at the forefront of payors’, regulators’, and providers’ agendas. It is important to examine what may be done to prevent the most common complications associated with ostomy surgery — complications that drive cost,...
    Preventive medicine is at...
05/01/2005
Wound Management & Prevention
Department
Unna Boots versus Multilayered, Sustained, Graduated High Compression Bandage Systems
05/01/2005
AMA Recommended 29580 for Unna Boot and Multilayered, Sustained, Graduated High Compression Bandage Systems     In February 1999, the American Medical Association (AMA) CPT®1 Editorial Panel voted against issuing a new CPT code for the...
AMA Recommended 29580 for Unna Boot and Multilayered, Sustained, Graduated High Compression Bandage Systems     In February 1999, the American Medical Association (AMA) CPT®1 Editorial Panel voted against issuing a new CPT code for the...
AMA Recommended 29580 for Unna...
05/01/2005
Wound Management & Prevention

Department

Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
05/01/2005
Dear Editor,     I was a bit puzzled when I read the article: Pressure ulcer prevention and care: implementing the revised guidance to surveyors for long-term care facilities (Ostomy Wound Manage. 2005;51[4suppl]:7S–19S).     The...
Dear Editor,     I was a bit puzzled when I read the article: Pressure ulcer prevention and care: implementing the revised guidance to surveyors for long-term care facilities (Ostomy Wound Manage. 2005;51[4suppl]:7S–19S).     The...
Dear Editor,     I was a bit...
05/01/2005
Wound Management & Prevention

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