What is needed to monitor healing in the outpatient clinic setting?
To monitor healing in the outpatient setting, clinicians need: easily usable tools to collect data, whether a checklist or software program real-time analysis (or at least timely analysis) of the data relative to a treatment protocol a method of analysis that allows manipulation of the data for multiple purposes communication of the analysis; future actions should be based on this analysis. The result will be a dynamic, cyclical monitoring system, most meaningful when it is not retrospective and static, but fluid so that adjustments can be made as needed.
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Columbia Regional Resource Center, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., USA.
D000553:Ambulatory Care / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D009737:Nursing Records; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D003668:Pressure Ulcer / Q000451:nursing* / Q000503:physiopathology; D014945:Wound Healing