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

Letter from the Editor
01/13/2016
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
In 2015, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for the first time distributed Quality and Resource Use Reports (QRURs) to all physicians in the country. Made available in early September, the QRUR is a confidential report that...
In 2015, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for the first time distributed Quality and Resource Use Reports (QRURs) to all physicians in the country. Made available in early September, the QRUR is a confidential report that...
In 2015, the Centers for...
01/13/2016
Today's Wound Clinic
Letter from the Editor
12/15/2015
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
“What experience and history teach is this — that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.” - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of...
“What experience and history teach is this — that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.” - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of...
“What experience and history...
12/15/2015
Today's Wound Clinic
Audits
10/19/2015
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
Particular modalities have come under the microscope in this industry. Is your clinic performing them appropriately as per medical necessity?
Particular modalities have come under the microscope in this industry. Is your clinic performing them appropriately as per medical necessity?
Particular modalities have come...
10/19/2015
Today's Wound Clinic
Practice Management
09/11/2015
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
It is possible for hospitals and wound care providers to manage their own clinics without external oversight. Here’s how to do so appropriately, safely, and successfully.
It is possible for hospitals and wound care providers to manage their own clinics without external oversight. Here’s how to do so appropriately, safely, and successfully.
It is possible for hospitals and...
09/11/2015
Today's Wound Clinic
06/16/2015
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
Vascular screening is advisable for every patient living with a chronic, nonhealing, lower extremity ulcer. This article will discuss methods for establishing vascular screening protocol in the wound clinic.
Vascular screening is advisable for every patient living with a chronic, nonhealing, lower extremity ulcer. This article will discuss methods for establishing vascular screening protocol in the wound clinic.
Vascular screening is advisable...
06/16/2015
Today's Wound Clinic
Letter from the Editor
06/15/2015
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
This issue of Today’s Wound Clinic focuses on one of the most important and rewarding aspects of wound care — limb preservation. Our patients develop limb-threatening wounds for many reasons, and preventing limb loss requires addressing all...
This issue of Today’s Wound Clinic focuses on one of the most important and rewarding aspects of wound care — limb preservation. Our patients develop limb-threatening wounds for many reasons, and preventing limb loss requires addressing all...
This issue of Today’s Wound...
06/15/2015
Today's Wound Clinic
Letter from the Editor
05/19/2015
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
It’s time to stop fudging the data on “wound healing rates.” Continuing this practice is going to hurt us all.   
It’s time to stop fudging the data on “wound healing rates.” Continuing this practice is going to hurt us all.   
It’s time to stop fudging the...
05/19/2015
Today's Wound Clinic
Letter from the Editor
04/16/2015
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
  The nails are already in the coffin of the fee-for-service reimbursement model we used to know as healthcare providers. It’s not quite buried, but we are presiding over the funeral.
  The nails are already in the coffin of the fee-for-service reimbursement model we used to know as healthcare providers. It’s not quite buried, but we are presiding over the funeral.
  The nails are already in the...
04/16/2015
Today's Wound Clinic
Interview
04/16/2015
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
D. Scott Covington, MD, FACS, CHWS
Today’s Wound Clinic clinical editor Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM, speaks with author D. Scott Covington, MD, FACS, CHWS, about the future of wound clinics and the industry.
Today’s Wound Clinic clinical editor Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM, speaks with author D. Scott Covington, MD, FACS, CHWS, about the future of wound clinics and the industry.
Today’s Wound Clinic clinical...
04/16/2015
Today's Wound Clinic
Letter from the Editor
03/18/2015
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
Inappropriate use of HBOT has brought the forces of the federal government down upon the entire industry. Now all of us have to deal with the reality that HBOT is under a more watchful eye and that reimbursement and patient care may be...
Inappropriate use of HBOT has brought the forces of the federal government down upon the entire industry. Now all of us have to deal with the reality that HBOT is under a more watchful eye and that reimbursement and patient care may be...
Inappropriate use of HBOT has...
03/18/2015
Today's Wound Clinic