Assessment and Monitoring of the Wound Micro-Environment in Chronic Wounds Using Standardized Wound Swabbing for Individualized Diagnostics and Targeted Interventions.

Patient-specific diagnostic and therapeutic approaches are important in the care of people with chronic wounds. The heterogeneity of underlying disease profiles and the diversity of the wound micro-environment make generalized approaches difficult. While high-throughput molecular diagnostic methods are increasingly widespread and available, the analysis of objective biomolecular disease patterns has not found its way into everyday wound management.