Tag: Terry Swanson

Strategies to reduce practice variation in wound assessment and management: The T.I.M.E. Clinical Decision Support Tool

Zena Moore, Dot Weir, Shinobu Ayabe, Andrea Bellingeri, Keryln Carville, Alison Garten, Rolf Jelnes, Lee Ruotsi, Henri Post, Joanna Swan, Terry Swanson, Ewa Sturmer, Gulnaz Tariq, Kevin Woo, Michael Clark

 

This document seeks to help clinicians support those who do not have specialist wound training to accurately assess patients and their wounds and arrive at a broad-based, systematic rationale that will ultimately help reduce variations in clinical decision-making. The T.I.M.E. Clinical Decision Support Tool provides a structured approach to wound bed preparation … read more

Wound Infection in Clinical practice – principles of best practice

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Wound infection continues to be challenging for people with a wound, their families and health professionals. Wound infection can lead to protracted wound healing, multiple health service visits and increased hospital admission duration. This comes at significant economic cost and negatively impacts quality of life outcomes for the person with a wound and their family. Accurate and timely identification of the signs and symptoms of wound infection are critical to achieving effective management of wound infection … read more

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