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Wound healing begins with the assessment of the patient and the wound, and proper documentation by the health care provider.

The field of wound management is a rapidly growing area of patient care. Health care professionals are met with an increased need for wound care knowledge as the incidence of chronic wounds continues to rise with an aging patient population.

What's the relationship between coding and reimbursement? How are wound care products, services and technologies assigned codes, such as HCPCS (Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System)? What does this process entail?

Pressure ulcers can develop quickly and can often be difficult to heal. Educating patients who are at risk of developing pressure ulcers (injuries), as well as their caregivers is a critical component of prevention.

This guide to key organizations, associations and foundations with strong interests in wound care has been created to help health care providers find the resources they need to succeed in the evolving landscape of care.

The 2017 WoundSource Wound Care Conference Guide is a comprehensive planning tool that includes conferences, meetings and events with a focus on wound medicine and related specialty fields.

Making wound treatment choices on the basis of the color or exudate of the wound bed is easy but may not reflect the complexity we see in the multiple presentations encountered in the chronic wound bed.

Pressure ulcers present health care providers with a myriad of factors to consider in the assessment, treatment and dressing selection to attain a path to wound healing.

Skin grafts and flaps are an effective and common surgical procedure used in the treatment of certain wound types, including pressure ulcers.

Over the past several years, Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) has become a standard treatment for many wound types. Outcomes associated with the use of NPWT fall into two broad categories: Improved wound healing and improved wound care.

Pressure ulcers are a significant problem across the continuum of health care settings.

Whether you're new to wound care or have practiced in the different team types yourself, this article provides a concise overview of the current functional team models found in today's wound care practices.

Palliative wound care is a relatively new field that focuses on the wound treatment of individuals at the end of life, those with terminal disease or those unable to tolerate standard care.

Like many aspects of wound care, wound device product selection has become an increasingly complex and sophisticated process over the past several decades.

Today's wound care clinicians are confronted with hundreds of products, scientific rationale for moist interactive wound dressings and an emerging evidence-base for wound dressing product selection.