A multidisciplinary, therapy-based, team approach for efficient and effective wound healing: a retrospective study.

This paper presents a 4-year retrospective study (1994 to 1998) of therapy-based treatment outcomes for chronic wounds of all stages and most common etiologies. Treatment in this study consists of outpatient wound treatments given by trained therapists and nurses who were supervised by the podiatrist or internist. Many patients were referred to the clinic for last-resort treatment (i.