Q: What’s new with wound care documentation and CMS guidelines? A: The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently issued modifications in Local Coverage Determinants that can potentially affect ...

Nurses must be able to assess tissue condition, wound size, and signs of infection, and choose and apply various dressings, while also managing pain and preventing complications. Gain these skills and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . There has been litigation growth around wound care. Physicians should thoroughly examine and document wound ...

Years ago, during my "marketing and sales period", a nurse approached me during a break at a seminar to ask my advice about a patient and his wound. Instead of describing the patient and his problems, ...

Deep learning has transformed wound assessment by providing objective, reproducible analyses of wound images and quantitative metrics that support clinical decision-making. Convolutional neural ...

Nursing Times hosted a final free webinar for the year on the 9 December, to explore the role of technology in improving wound assessment and management, supported by an educational grant from The ...

Using patent-pending technology created by TRUE-See Systems™, the module will help correct common photo documentation problems, including erroneous color and lighting, and inconsistent orientation and ...

In a recent survey of wound care professionals who work in nursing homes, almost half reported observing wound documentation that was inaccurate and led to adverse patient outcomes including sepsis, ...