Volume 49 - Issue 8 - August, 2003
Department
08/01/2003
Scenario: The American Medical Association (AMA) or the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) establishes a new billing code for a new wound care technology.
The wound of a Medicare beneficiary residing in Massachusetts is...
Scenario: The American Medical Association (AMA) or the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) establishes a new billing code for a new wound care technology.
The wound of a Medicare beneficiary residing in Massachusetts is...
Scenario: The American...
08/01/2003
Wound Management & Prevention
Department
08/01/2003
Abdominal therapy system launched
Kinetic Concepts Incorporated (KCI, Cincinnati, OH) recently introduced the V.A.C.® Abdominal Dressing System, a form of negative pressure wound therapy that can provide clinical and cost effective...
Abdominal therapy system launched
Kinetic Concepts Incorporated (KCI, Cincinnati, OH) recently introduced the V.A.C.® Abdominal Dressing System, a form of negative pressure wound therapy that can provide clinical and cost effective...
Abdominal therapy system...
08/01/2003
Wound Management & Prevention
Column
08/01/2003
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 was intended to streamline inefficiencies within the insurance system, protect against fraud and abuse, and prepare the healthcare industry for standardized electronic...
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 was intended to streamline inefficiencies within the insurance system, protect against fraud and abuse, and prepare the healthcare industry for standardized electronic...
The Health Insurance...
08/01/2003
Wound Management & Prevention
Column
08/01/2003
The ability to remove a dressing without causing trauma to the wound and surrounding skin or pain to the patient is an important feature in the performance of that product. Over the years, dressings with a variety of different types of...
The ability to remove a dressing without causing trauma to the wound and surrounding skin or pain to the patient is an important feature in the performance of that product. Over the years, dressings with a variety of different types of...
The ability to remove a...
08/01/2003
Wound Management & Prevention
Feature
Empirical Studies
08/01/2003
Evidence-based medicine promotes the use of systems and interventions that have been shown to be effective, allowing clinicians to rely on solid evidence (when available) for treatment decisions. Payor sources and hospital systems need...
Evidence-based medicine promotes the use of systems and interventions that have been shown to be effective, allowing clinicians to rely on solid evidence (when available) for treatment decisions. Payor sources and hospital systems need...
Evidence-based medicine...
08/01/2003
Wound Management & Prevention
Empirical Studies
08/01/2003
Despite the fact that chronic wound management presents serious medical and economic problems, most countries lack standard treatment guidelines. A chronic wound has been defined as, "one where there is tissue deficit as the result of...
Despite the fact that chronic wound management presents serious medical and economic problems, most countries lack standard treatment guidelines. A chronic wound has been defined as, "one where there is tissue deficit as the result of...
Despite the fact that chronic...
08/01/2003
Wound Management & Prevention
Empirical Studies
08/01/2003
Diabetes mellitus is one of the most serious chronic diseases in the world, due to its high incidence and high levels of morbidity and mortality.1,2 Defined as a chronic and degenerative disease that alters the individual's homeostasis,...
Diabetes mellitus is one of the most serious chronic diseases in the world, due to its high incidence and high levels of morbidity and mortality.1,2 Defined as a chronic and degenerative disease that alters the individual's homeostasis,...
Diabetes mellitus is one of...
08/01/2003
Wound Management & Prevention
Column
Editorial
08/01/2003
It isn't easy, staying in the green. For a journal to meet its publication costs, advertising must be secured and sponsors must be lined up for special projects such as supplements and certain columns (in OWM, those include "Addressing the...
It isn't easy, staying in the green. For a journal to meet its publication costs, advertising must be secured and sponsors must be lined up for special projects such as supplements and certain columns (in OWM, those include "Addressing the...
It isn't easy, staying in the...
08/01/2003
Wound Management & Prevention
Department
Letters to the Editor
08/01/2003
Dear Editor,
In the interest of upholding Ostomy/Wound Management's goal to provide accurate, balanced continuing medical education, we respectfully request clarifications regarding the article by Dr. Burrell (A scientific perspective on...
Dear Editor,
In the interest of upholding Ostomy/Wound Management's goal to provide accurate, balanced continuing medical education, we respectfully request clarifications regarding the article by Dr. Burrell (A scientific perspective on...
Dear Editor,
In the interest...
08/01/2003
Wound Management & Prevention
