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Recommended Reading: "The Patient Interview: Questions to Ask for Better Wound Outcomes."

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 12, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care

Wow!  This is a great article from Janet Wolfson PT, CLWT, CWS, CLT-LANA as published on April 26, 2017 by Wound Source. I was recently listening to one of my favorite news sources, NPR, enjoying an interview with James E. Ryan, the author of “Wait, What?...

Peripheral Arterial Disease Hall of Shame – Case #1

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 19, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Skin Perfusion Pressure (SPP)

I have decided to start a series called the “Peripheral Arterial Disease Hall of Shame.” Maybe if we keep talking about these cases we can change the way these patients are treated so they are diagnosed before it is too late. This is a 60ish year old...

Straight Talk Tuesday

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 28, 2015 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, US Wound Registry

Every Tuesday this month we’ve been having some straight talk about a US Wound Registry Quality Measure. I’d like to talk about the measure “Appropriate use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for diabetic foot ulcers”. This was the first HBOT measure the USWR asked CMS to...
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