News Releases & Publications
Three wound care quality measures developed by the Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders and the US Wound Registry (USWR) are now included on Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Physician Compare website, following a summertime content update that expanded quality performance data on the site. The USWR quality measures selected for Physician Compare reporting are:
- “Adequate off-loading of diabetic foot ulcer at each treatment visit.”
- “Adequate compression of venous leg ulcers at each treatment visit.”
- “Vascular assessment of patients with chronic leg ulcers.”
celebrating 15 Years - watch our 15th anniversary video
The Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders celebrated its impact over the past 15 years since its founding in 2002. Watch our festive 15th anniversary video and learn more about the founding of the Alliance back in 2002 and the impact we’ve had since then.
A new study, “An Economic Evaluation of the Impact, Cost, and Medicare Policy Implications of Chronic Nonhealing Wounds,” published in the International Society For Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research’s Value in Health journal (Jan. 2018) demonstrates the economic impact and full burden of chronic nonhealing wounds in the Medicare population. The study analyzed the Medicare 5% Limited Data Set for CY2014 to determine the cost of chronic wound care for Medicare beneficiaries in aggregate, by wound type, and by setting. Topline findings show that chronic wounds impact nearly 15% of Medicare beneficiaries (8.2 million) at an annual cost to Medicare conservatively estimated at $28.1 to $31.7 billion. Key findings:
The Alliance led a panel discussion "Harnessing Big Data for Wound Healing Research: Which is More Relevant in the Quest for Evidence - Patient Centered Outcomes or Randomized Trials?" at the 2016 International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) meeting in Washington D.C. Panelists included Marcia Nusgart (moderator), Dr. Caroline Fife, Dr. Marissa Carter and AHRQ's Dr. Elise Berliner.
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See the Value of Wound Care research page for insights on innovative trends in wound care research today,
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Read more:
See the Value of Wound Care research page for insights on innovative trends in wound care research today,
The Alliance recognized the need to craft a white paper on criteria for conducting methodologically sound randomized controlled clinical trials (RCTs) as well as address the importance and relative strength of non-RCT research in the wound care field. In 2010, the assembled a team of prominent, respected wound care researchers to address this task. The team was called the Panel On Wound Care Evidence Based Research (POWER™) and its ensuing paper, “Consensus Principles for Wound Care Research Obtained Using a Delphi Process” was published in the 2012 May/June edition of Wound Repair and Regeneration. The paper established a series of principles for all stakeholders involved in clinical or comparative effectiveness research in wound healing.
