Volume 1 Issue 2 - Fall 2007
Column
Business Briefs
09/25/2009
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) Work Plans for the past few years include a study to determine the extent to which Medical Part B surgical debridement services met Medicare program requirements. The findings from the May 2007 OIG...
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) Work Plans for the past few years include a study to determine the extent to which Medical Part B surgical debridement services met Medicare program requirements. The findings from the May 2007 OIG...
The Office of Inspector...
09/25/2009
Today's Wound Clinic
Opening Arguments
09/25/2009
DOT WEIR, RN, CWON, CWS
CAROLINE FIFE, MD
DOT WEIR, RN, CWON, CWS
CAROLINE FIFE...
The TWC Editorial Board labored over how to address the important, controversial, and confusing topic of debridement. An integral part of the day-to-day care provided in hospital-owned outpatient wound care departments (HOPDs), debridement...
The TWC Editorial Board labored over how to address the important, controversial, and confusing topic of debridement. An integral part of the day-to-day care provided in hospital-owned outpatient wound care departments (HOPDs), debridement...
The TWC Editorial Board labored...
09/25/2009
Today's Wound Clinic
09/25/2009
Are you making the most appropriate clinical and coding choices? Take the Debridement Quiz and test your knowledge. Share your responses with TWC — we will publish compiled results in a future issue.
Study the examples of wounds,...
Are you making the most appropriate clinical and coding choices? Take the Debridement Quiz and test your knowledge. Share your responses with TWC — we will publish compiled results in a future issue.
Study the examples of wounds,...
Are you making the most...
09/25/2009
Today's Wound Clinic
09/25/2009
Modern literature on debridement initially centered on the life-saving benefits of debriding wounds sustained during war. The impact of debridement on decreasing war wound-related mortality was so profound that a century ago the concept of...
Modern literature on debridement initially centered on the life-saving benefits of debriding wounds sustained during war. The impact of debridement on decreasing war wound-related mortality was so profound that a century ago the concept of...
Modern literature on debridement...
09/25/2009
Today's Wound Clinic
09/25/2009
Education is a never-ending process of acquiring knowledge and skills and developing powers of reason and judgment. In an independent wound clinic, educational responsibilities are handled in-house. The following discussion offers insights...
Education is a never-ending process of acquiring knowledge and skills and developing powers of reason and judgment. In an independent wound clinic, educational responsibilities are handled in-house. The following discussion offers insights...
Education is a never-ending...
09/25/2009
Today's Wound Clinic
09/25/2009
A chance to cut is a chance to cure. — Medical proverb
Non-viable (necrotic) material within a chronic wound has been shown to inhibit the development of vascular tissue (granulation) and the formation of skin (epithelialization)....
A chance to cut is a chance to cure. — Medical proverb
Non-viable (necrotic) material within a chronic wound has been shown to inhibit the development of vascular tissue (granulation) and the formation of skin (epithelialization)....
A chance to cut is a chance to...
09/25/2009
Today's Wound Clinic
