Implementing a Chronic Wound Care Workshop for Internal Medicine Residents.

Objective: To determine the feasibility of a piloted wound care curriculum within a busy internal medicine (IM) curriculum.

Methods: This prospective pilot study was conducted with 89 IM residents at an academic teaching hospital. The residents were provided a 90-minute workshop in chronic wound care.

Implementing a Chronic Wound Care Curriculum for Internal Medicine Residents.

Objective: The objective of this study was to determine if participation in a practice-based learning session would change the residents' reported wound care practice.

Methods: A 90-minute didactic and skills workshop in chronic wound care was provided to 89 internal medicine (IM) residents divided into 4 groups, who were asked to complete an anonymous clinical vignette survey prior to the session and again 3 months after the practice-based learning session.

Results: Comparisons of the pretest and posttest scores (Mann-Whitney U Test) showed only ordering moisture-retentive dressing changed significantly.

Consensus principles for wound care research obtained using a Delphi process.

Too many wound care research studies are poorly designed, badly executed, and missing crucial data. The objective of this study is to create a series of principles for all stakeholders involved in clinical or comparative effectiveness research in wound healing. The Delphi approach was used to reach consensus, using a web-based survey for survey participants and face-to-face conferences for expert panel members.

The AAWC conceptual framework of quality systems for wound care.

When the Association for Advanced Wound Care Quality of Care Task Force members determined there was no unanimously accepted definition of quality as it relates to wound care, they: 1) identified relevant components of quality wound care, and 2) created a framework of quality wound care indicators to enable the creation or assessment of wound care delivery systems. The framework is an innovative conceptual model that serves as a basis for the Association strategies to facilitate high quality wound care for patients/clients across the continuum of care and recognizes the role of the supporting systems necessary to provide wound care services. It uses the Institute of Medicine's Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century to define quality systems for wound care and includes safety and effectiveness coupled with the delivery of timely, efficient, equitable, collaborative, patient-centered care.