title: Influencing clinical practice: evidence-based wound care.
abstract: Influencing clinical practice increasingly requires quality evidence to support recommendations and guidelines. Review of the evidence for wound care interventions provides practitioners with several challenges. Randomized controlled trials are scarce and have many limitations with respect to wound care, while other sources of evidence are often flawed because of the complexities of the wound-healing process or are limited by their methodology. This article attempts to explain some of the benefits and problems associated with different types of evidence, all of which need to be considered in order to influence wound management.
authors.affiliation: Bradford University and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Towler
mesh_terms: D000739:Anecdotes as Topic; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008499:Medical Records; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011788:Quality of Life; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012107:Research Design / Q000592:standards; D012196:Review Literature as Topic; D012307:Risk Factors; D017592:Skin Care / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods / Q000451:nursing* / Q000592:standards*; D014945:Wound Healing; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology