A Clinical Support App for routine wound management: reducing practice variation, improving clinician confidence and increasing formulary compliance

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Moore, Zena EH
Aynge, Georgina E
Carr, Caryn G
Horton, Aundrea J
Jones, Hayley A
Murphy, Nina S
Payne, Matthew R
McCarthy, Catherine H
Murdoch, Julie M
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2022
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Wounds continue to be of a global concern. Therefore, a more focussed, evidence-based approach to wound assessment and management is required. The WOUND COMPASS™ Clinical Support App (CSA) is designed to support the health care professional with wound assessment and management at the point of care. This real-world pilot study aimed to determine the utility of the CSA during routine wound management, in multiple care settings. A non-interventional, real-world pilot programme of the CSA was conducted at four sites. Patients received routine wound management. The CSA was programmed to replicate the site's formulary for evidence-based wound management. Anonymised pre- and post-pilot clinician opinion surveys on useability and impact of the CSA were collected and reported. Wound Specialists (n = 7 [100%]) and Non-Wound Specialists (NWS) (n = 58 [82%]) indicated that competence and confidence in wound assessment were enhanced with use of the CSA (100%; 82%). Furthermore, practice variation was reduced because of a greater compliance to their local formulary (n = 7 [100%]; 79% [54%]). This real-world pilot shows the positive impact of the CSA, and the improvements that can be potentially realised via reduction in practice variation, improvement in NWSs confidence when managing wounds and increased formulary compliance.

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International Wound Journal

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19

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5

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© 2022 Smith and Nephew. International Wound Journal published by Medicalhelplines.com Inc (3M) and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivsLicense, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

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Clinical sciences

Nursing

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Dermatology

Surgery

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Moore, ZEH; Aynge, GE; Carr, CG; Horton, AJ; Jones, HA; Murphy, NS; Payne, MR; McCarthy, CH; Murdoch, JM, A Clinical Support App for routine wound management: reducing practice variation, improving clinician confidence and increasing formulary compliance, International Wound Journal, 2022, 19 (5), pp. 1263-1275

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