Data collection & assessment

Data collection & assessment

Amanda Steinhauser recently wrote a blog piece (Wound Source August 2017) discussing how accurate outcomes reporting improves patient care. She made an interesting statement … “In wound care, we are willing to accept poor data collection and faulty patient assessment techniques as status quo.” Based on my own observations from visiting clinicians in numerous health care settings, I think that Amanda has a point. Nothing delays the delivery of effective wound care more profoundly than inadequate assessment and the subsequent failure to diagnose the reason that skin, as an organ, is unable to heal itself.