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ArticleInternational wound journal2023

The clinical and cost effectiveness of remote expert wound nurse consultation for healing of pressure injuries among residential aged care patients: A protocol for a prospective pilot parallel cluster randomised controlled trial.

Suzanne Kapp, Marie Gerdtz, Charne Miller, Amit Gefen, William Padula, Lauren Wilson, Michael Woodward, Nick Santamaria

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Article in International wound journal, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Suzanne KappDepartment of Nursing, Melbourne School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Carlton, Victoria, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5438-8384
Marie GerdtzDepartment of Nursing, Melbourne School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Carlton, Victoria, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2100-994X
Charne MillerDepartment of Nursing, Melbourne School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Carlton, Victoria, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4344-685X
Amit GefenThe Herbert J. Berman Chair in Vascular Bioengineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0223-7218
William PadulaDepartment of Pharmaceutical & Health Economics, School of Pharmacy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1161-6954
Lauren WilsonCommunity Nursing and Residential Aged Care, Geelong, Victoria, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8524-1940
Michael WoodwardChronic Wound Management Service, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia.
Nick SantamariaDepartment of Nursing, Melbourne School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Carlton, Victoria, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5270-6943

Funding

Department of Nursing at the University of MelbourneMölnlycke Health Carethe Melbourne Academic Centre for HealthThis work was supported by a competitive grant from the Victorian Medical Research Acceleration Fund, with funding co-contribution from the Department of Nursing at the University of Melbourne, the Melbourne Academic Centre for Health, and Mölnlycke Health Care.Victorian Medical Research Acceleration Fund
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pressure injuries affect 1 to 46% of residents in aged care (long term) facilities and cause a substantial economic burden on health care systems. Remote expert wound nurse consultation has the potential to improve pressure injury outcomes; however, the clinical and cost effectiveness of this intervention for healing of pressure injuries in residential aged care require further investigation. We describe the remote expert wound nurse consultation intervention and the method of a prospective, pilot, cluster randomised controlled trial. The primary outcome is number of wounds healed. Secondary outcomes are wound healing rate, time to healing, wound infection, satisfaction, quality of life, cost of treatment and care, hospitalisations, and deaths. Intervention group participants receive the intervention over a 12-week period and all participants are monitored for 24 weeks. A wound imaging and measurement system is used to analyse pressure injury images. A feasibility and fidelity evaluation will be concurrently conducted. The results of the trial will inform the merit of and justification for a future definitive trial to evaluate the clinical and cost effectiveness of remote expert wound nurse consultation for the healing of pressure injuries in residential aged care.

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Cost-Effectiveness AnalysisPressure UlcerAgedCost-Benefit AnalysisHumansProspective StudiesQuality of LifeRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicReferral and ConsultationWound Healingaged careimplementation researchpilot randomised controlled trialpressure ulcerprotocol

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PMID37529854
PMCPMC10502244

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