Survey of Wound-Healing Centers and Wound Care Units in China
The purpose of this study is to report the Chinese experience of establishing hospital-based wound care centers over 15 years.A total of 69 wound-healing centers (VVHCs) and wound care units (WCUs) were involved.Questionnaires were diverged to the principal directors of these sites;data extracted for this study included origin, year of establishment,medical staff, degree of hospitals, wound etiology, wound-healing rate, hospital stay, and outcomes data.The period of data extraction was defined as before and after 1 year of the establishment of WHCs and WCUs.The earliest WHC was established in 1999, and from 2010 the speeds of establishing WHCs and WCUs rapidly increased.The majority of WHCs were divisions of burn departments, and all WHCs came from departments of outpatient dressing rooms.Full-time multidisciplinary employees of WHCs differed greatly to WCUs.Types of wound and outcomes vary with those of centers reported from Western countries and the United States.Improvement in wound healing caused by the establishment of WHCs and WCUs in China occurred without doubt.Some advices include the following: rearrange and reorganize the distribution of WHCs and WCUs;enact and generalize Chinese guidelines for chronic wounds;utilize medical resources reasonably;improve multidisciplinary medical staff team;draw up and change some medical and public policies and regulations.
wound-healing centers wound care units china
Yufeng Jiang Lei Xia Lijing Jia Xiaobing Fu
Wound Healing Unit, Trauma Center of Postgraduate Medical School,Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beiji Wound Healing Unit, Trauma Center of Postgraduate Medical School,Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beiji Key Laboratory of Wound Repair and Regeneration of PLA, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chinese PLA
国内会议
北京
英文
448-453
2015-10-31（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）