EWMA Document: Home Care-Wound Care: Overview, Challenges and Perspectives

Abstract

This document provides an overview of the main approaches to the organisation of wound care within homecare settings across Europe with case exemplars from England, Germany and the Nordic Countries. By identifying possible barriers to best practice wound care in home care settings and uncovering the preconditions needed to provide safe and high quality care for wound patients and support for their families, the authors provide a list of minimum recommendations for the treatment of patients with wounds in their own homes.

Keywords: best practice; care pathway; chronic care model; eHealth assisted care; education; guideline implementation; holistic assessment; home care; home care-wound care; informal carer; inter-professional collaboration; interdisciplinary; multidisciplinary teamwork; organisation of care; patient empowerment; patient perspective; team work; wound care; wound management.