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Supplement
21 Consensus Statements From the Coalition for At-Risk Skin
Supplement
Study to determine if the use of a new dressing protocol applied by advanced practice certified wound care nurses at the patient’s residence could be effective in rapid wound resolution.
Special Report on MASD written by Elizabeth Faust, MSN, CRNP, CSWS, CWOCN-AP, MAPWCA; Siobhan McCoulough, CNS; and Patricia Idensohn, CNS.
Biomedical engineer Amit Gefen, BSc, MSc, PhD, discusses dressings in general and gelling dressings in particular from an engineering and clinical use perspective.
The supplement provides a brief overview of the Wound Hygiene Protocol, developed by ConvaTec, as well as a series of clinical cases presented by experts in their respective fields. These clinical cases challenge the reader to consider how to best approach the reported wound cases. 
White Papers
Value-based purchasing is a recent initiative by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to incentivize value over volume in health care purchasing. 
White Papers
Antimicrobial stewardship is an important component of helping maintain the efficacy of antibiotics in treating infections. Read more about antibiotic stewardship in this white paper sponsored by Century Pharmaceuticals.
This paper reports on the topic of pressure injury documentation and assessment to improve the staging and recording of pressure injuries. This paper was sponsored by Tissue Analytics, a Net Health Company.