Developing clinical benchmarks to assess progress in wound-care management.
How can health practitioners recognise whether the care they are providing to patients is really making a difference? This article suggests that one way to do this is to devise a set of measures to evaluate outcomes. Taking the example of wound-care nursing, it proposes that such tools should take into account not only the practitioners' perceptions of a patient's progress, but also the views of the patient and those of health service managers.
Vuolo
Julie
J
University of Hertfordshire. j.c.vuolo@herts.ac.uk
D019985:Benchmarking / Q000458:organization & administration*; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards*; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D006801:Humans; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D011788:Quality of Life; D017592:Skin Care / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology / Q000592:standards*; D014945:Wound Healing; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000150:complications / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology