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T.I.M.E to improve patient outcomes: optimising wound care through a clinical decision support tool

28 March 2019

Wound Healing

02 March 2019

Volume 28 · Issue 6

ISSN (print): 0966-0461

ISSN (online): 2052-2819

Wounds pose a significant burden to patients as well as the health economy. They can often be hard to heal, resulting in a cycle of pain, anxiety and reduced quality of life for individuals affected as well as consuming significant healthcare resources to treat.

In a recent study (Guest et al, 2015) the annual cost to the NHS in the UK attributable to wound management and associated comorbidities was estimated to be £5.3 billion. Delayed wound healing and wound complications add considerably to the cost of care and are associated with longer and more intensive treatment, extended hospital stays or readmission and a need for specialist intervention (Dowsett, 2015). The resources required to manage unhealed wounds are significantly greater than that of managing healed wounds, and non-healed wounds in the community require an extra 20% more practice nurse visits and 104% more community nurse visits (Guest et al, 2017).

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