Supporting the spread of health technology in community services

An early review noted that health technology evolves rapidly and found few studies demonstrating impacts on patient outcomes.2 Health technology's rate of change is increasing, with implications for...

Focus: antibiotic/antimicrobial stewardship

COMMUNITY NURSING AND ANTIBIOTIC STEWARDSHIP: the importance of communication and training

Growing evidence supports the use of theoretical frameworks to identify barriers and facilitators to health professional behaviour, and one such approach is the behaviour change wheel (BCW).

Use of wet-to-moist cleansing with different irrigation solutions to reduce bacterial bioburden in chronic wounds

All data analysed were collected as part of routine diagnosis and treatment, and patients were diagnosed and treated according to national guidelines and standards.8,9,10 All included patients gave...

Antibiotic/antimicrobial stewardship

‘penicillin was only used for a properly diagnosed reason and to never use too little or for too short a period.’ .

Antibiotic prescribing in wound care

NICE8 defines antimicrobial stewardship as ‘an organisational or health-care system wide approach to promoting and monitoring judicious use of antimicrobials to preserve their future effectiveness’..

Biofilm-based efficacy of a bacterial fluorescence imaging device in an outpatient wound care clinic: a pilot study

Using a imaging device has a number of advantages in the outpatient wound care clinic setting. It is simple to use, requiring little training and can be used by all health professionals. It has been...

Advances in wound debridement techniques

Any decision regarding wound debridement should be part of a holistic patient assessment. This assessment should consider the person's general condition, prognosis, health, and wishes. If, for...