title: Innovation and wound healing.
abstract: Innovation in medicine requires unique partnerships between academic research, biotech or pharmaceutical companies, and health-care providers. While innovation in medicine has greatly increased over the past 100 years, innovation in wound care has been slow, despite the fact that chronic wounds are a global health challenge where there is a need for technical, process and social innovation. While novel partnerships between research and the health-care system have been created, we still have much to learn about wound care and the wound-healing processes.
authors: Dean of Clinical Innovation, Head of Wound Healing Research Unit (WHRU), School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.
authors: Keith
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authors: Harding
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000628:therapy*; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D006801:Humans; D057170:Translational Research, Biomedical; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014945:Wound Healing; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000628:therapy*
keywords: chronic wounds; innovation; wound healing