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Standardizing Clinical Trial Endpoints in Wound Healing

March 17, 2016
By Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA Recently, I had the pleasure of attending Puccini's opera Turandot at New York's Metropolitan Opera House. In my favorite scene, young prince Calef comes...

Weathering the Dog Days By Way of Research!

August 29, 2016
By Thomas E. Serena, MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA The ancients sacrificed a brown dog at the beginning of the Dog Days to appease the rage of Sirius, believing that the star was the cause of the hot, su...

What the Studies Say: Contained and Free-Range Maggot Therapy Delivery

December 17, 2015
By Ron Sherman MD, MSC, DTM&H In my previous post on maggot therapy, we discussed the differences between confinement and containment maggot therapy dressings. This post will examine the studies th...

Why Clinical Trials in Wound Care Are So Difficult

May 20, 2014
By Michel H.E. Hermans, MD To do a Randomized Controlled Trial within a reasonable time frame, the disease to be studied should be common and the patient population large and accessible. In additio...

Why Clinical Trials in Wound Care Are So Difficult, Part 2

June 20, 2014
By Michel H.E. Hermans, MD In the first part of this series on the challenges of conducting clinical trials in wound care, I discussed factors that include patient populations and lesion prevalence...

Wound Care Clinical Trials: Setting the Record Straight

August 22, 2017
By Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA A recent article by Kaiser Health News misquoted me as saying that we enroll only "healthy" patients in our clinical trials. At moments like this, one fe...
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