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Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM

What Facilities and Practitioners Need to Know in 2021
Feature
01/05/2021
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
Harriet Jones, MD, FACP
Traci A. Kimball, MD, CWSP
Eric Lullove, DPM, CWSP, FACCWS, FAPWCA
Jeanine Maguire, PT, MS, CWS
As a new year begins, several experts provide their insights into the biggest challenges facing the wound clinic, how clinics have adapted since COVID-19, and what gives them optimism in 2021. Q: What are the biggest challenges going...
As a new year begins, several experts provide their insights into the biggest challenges facing the wound clinic, how clinics have adapted since COVID-19, and what gives them optimism in 2021. Q: What are the biggest challenges going...
As a new year begins, several...
01/05/2021
Today's Wound Clinic
Patient-Centered Decision Making in Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine
HBOT
12/04/2020
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
Centering wound treatment on the patient rather than the disease permits patients more active engagement in their own care, and can lead to better outcomes. This author explains how to make your practice more patient centered, with an eye on...
Centering wound treatment on the patient rather than the disease permits patients more active engagement in their own care, and can lead to better outcomes. This author explains how to make your practice more patient centered, with an eye on...
Centering wound treatment on the...
12/04/2020
Today's Wound Clinic
A Closer Look at the Legal Implications of Pressure Injuries
Pressure Injuries
10/06/2020
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
Malpractice lawsuits are common for patients with pressure injuries, and their consequences can follow clinicians even when the charges are dismissed. This author takes a look at how plaintiffs can prevail in pressure injury lawsuits, and how...
Malpractice lawsuits are common for patients with pressure injuries, and their consequences can follow clinicians even when the charges are dismissed. This author takes a look at how plaintiffs can prevail in pressure injury lawsuits, and how...
Malpractice lawsuits are common...
10/06/2020
Today's Wound Clinic
What My Experiences Have Taught Me About Meritless Malpractice Cases
From the Editor
10/05/2020
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
I vividly remember my first malpractice suit. In the 1980s there were no rules about how many hours resident physicians worked. Like most of my colleagues, I worked over 100 hours a week. It’s not surprising that after two years, I succumbed...
I vividly remember my first malpractice suit. In the 1980s there were no rules about how many hours resident physicians worked. Like most of my colleagues, I worked over 100 hours a week. It’s not surprising that after two years, I succumbed...
I vividly remember my first...
10/05/2020
Today's Wound Clinic
How Our Team Manages Multidisciplinary Collaborative Care
From the Editor
08/04/2020
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
Debi Thompson, RN, WCC
Tara Stone
I am really proud of our wound clinic team and since the theme of this issue is multidisciplinary care, I interviewed them about their role in patient care and their perspective on collaborative practice. Here are the responses by our lead...
I am really proud of our wound clinic team and since the theme of this issue is multidisciplinary care, I interviewed them about their role in patient care and their perspective on collaborative practice. Here are the responses by our lead...
I am really proud of our wound...
08/04/2020
Today's Wound Clinic
Fighting Peripheral Arterial Disease One Leg at a Time
PAD
07/06/2020
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
To prevent amputation by screening for and treating peripheral arterial disease, this author notes CMS quality measures can aid clinicians in doing the right thing.
To prevent amputation by screening for and treating peripheral arterial disease, this author notes CMS quality measures can aid clinicians in doing the right thing.
To prevent amputation by...
07/06/2020
Today's Wound Clinic
Courage and Fortitude in the Time of COVID-19
From the Editor
04/03/2020
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
Last month, on March 8, I went to visit my 94-year-old Mother. She is an extreme statistical outlier because she requires no medications, lives alone in her own home, and drives round trip to Houston once a week (180 miles). That weekend, we...
Last month, on March 8, I went to visit my 94-year-old Mother. She is an extreme statistical outlier because she requires no medications, lives alone in her own home, and drives round trip to Houston once a week (180 miles). That weekend, we...
Last month, on March 8, I went...
04/03/2020
Today's Wound Clinic
Winning the Technology Race in Wound Care
From the Editor
02/03/2020
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
I have been thinking about technology in wound care and the meaning of value. I remember the space race of the 1960s even though I was a child, because my Dad was at the School of Aerospace Medicine where human physiology research was being...
I have been thinking about technology in wound care and the meaning of value. I remember the space race of the 1960s even though I was a child, because my Dad was at the School of Aerospace Medicine where human physiology research was being...
I have been thinking about...
02/03/2020
Today's Wound Clinic
How Wound Care May Change, for Better and Worse, in 2020
From the Editor
01/09/2020
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
A lot changed for me in 2019. I became a widow, sold the house we lived in for 29 years, moved into a rented townhouse, got my daughter off to college and my son off to graduate school. Thankfully, even the most difficult life changes have at...
A lot changed for me in 2019. I became a widow, sold the house we lived in for 29 years, moved into a rented townhouse, got my daughter off to college and my son off to graduate school. Thankfully, even the most difficult life changes have at...
A lot changed for me in 2019. I...
01/09/2020
Today's Wound Clinic
Delivering Care That Counts: Nutritional Screening of Patients with Chronic Wounds
Nutrition
01/08/2020
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
Optimizing nutrition can do wonders for chronic wounds. This author takes a look at nutritional screening for patients, and how wound care practitioners, nurses and registered dieticians can meet patients’ nutritional needs as well as their...
Optimizing nutrition can do wonders for chronic wounds. This author takes a look at nutritional screening for patients, and how wound care practitioners, nurses and registered dieticians can meet patients’ nutritional needs as well as their...
Optimizing nutrition can do...
01/08/2020
Today's Wound Clinic