Does Use of a Wound After-care Summary Improve Patient Satisfaction and Time to Wound Healing?

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Conditions studied: Wounds

In brief

The purpose of this research study is to evaluate a patient education program for chronic wound care. The wound care nurse practitioner (NP) at the Ann Arbor VAMC will use a wound self-management "after-care summary" with approximately half of her patients. This study will examine whether using this patient education tool for self-management of wound care results in improved patient outcomes.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00761839

Run by

US Department of Veterans Affairs

People needed

0

Starts

2008-07-01

Expected to finish

2009-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-05-06

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• All patients presenting for outpatient wound care at the Ann Arbor VA Medical Center NP wound care clinic, who meet the following inclusion criteria for chronic wounds: stage II, III, IV pressure ulcers; venous stasis ulcers, and diabetic ulcers.

You may not qualify if…

• Cognitively impaired patients who cannot give informed consent.

Where it is running

• VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI — Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
• VA Puget Sound Health Care System Seattle Division, Seattle, WA — Seattle, Washington, United States

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