Infection Control Discussion Continued
- Mon, 3/1/10 - 1:16pm
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Today's Wound Clinic's editorial board member Harriet Jones, MD, BSN, FAWCP continues the discussion on Infection Control from the February 2010 issue of the journal.
Today's Wound Clinic (TWC): Is Infection Control Important in the Wound Care clinic?
Documentation: Understanding EMR Systems
- Fri, 9/25/09 - 5:08am
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Compliance in the US generally means adherence to laws and regulations. Corporate scandals and breakdowns such as the Enron case in 2001 have highlighted the need for stronger compliance regulations for publicly listed companies. In the medical world, focus is on maintaining regulatory compliance in all activities of documentation and coding for billing professional services. The importance of documentation has been emphasized throughout this issue of TWC. With regulatory organizations closely monitoring activities, patient quality of care at stake, and the financial success of a wound center
Documentation: The 30,000- Foot View
- Fri, 9/25/09 - 5:02am
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Documentation is an intrinsic component of every patient encounter. The financial success of a facility depends upon the completeness of the process. The major factor affecting the quality of an organization’s data (and therefore its revenue stream) is the accuracy of documentation. If you are not already convinced of the importance of accuracy in documentation, a study by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) found that of all of the improper Medicare benefit payments made during 2001, 43% were due to documentation errors. It is well known that patient quality of care is also r
How Are We Doing? Evaluating Your Wound Clinic Operations
- Fri, 9/25/09 - 3:08am
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After a seemingly interminable amount of time, your wound center is open. You are seeing patients and helping them with their chronic wounds. Everything is going well.
Or is it? How is the wound center really doing? Are you practicing thorough, efficient, efficacious, cost-effective, evidence-based wound care? Are your patients doing well — ie, healing and/or comfortable? Are they happy with the way care is provided? Are you making any money (a distasteful but realistic question)? How do you know (ie, is any of this documented)? These difficult questions must be answered if you are to provi
Educating Staff - What Wound Clinicians Need To Know
- Thu, 9/24/09 - 10:22am
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You have been asked by your facility’s administrative team to train a staff for the new Wound Center that is to open in a few short months or even weeks. That should be fairly simple, right? After all, seasoned nurses, physical therapists, and other clinicians from multiple disciplines have been hired. Or maybe it’s not so easy. Often, staff members hired for hospital outpatient wound centers are pulled or transferred from the acute care setting — folks who enjoy caring for patients with wounds who have worked with the general hospital population, not exclusively with wound patients. Thi
