This document aims at providing an understanding of the implications of implementing NPWT as a treatment strategy in the health-care system as well as providing information and offer perspectives of NPWT from the viewpoints of health-care staff, policy makers, politicians, industry, patients and hospital administrators who are indirectly or directly involved in wound management.
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Objectives
To develop and publish a Guidance Document which as a minimum covers the following:
Inclusion of all three types of NPWT: on open wounds, with instillation and over closed incisions
Extensive coverage of specific factors and guidance in terms of treatment of wounds with different aetiologies and within different specialities
Organisation of NPWT with a focus on the cross-sectional possibilities and barriers including reim-bursement structures and implementation
Health economic aspects of the use of NPWT technology
Overview of evidence for the use of NPWT based on literature search
Authors & Editors
Jan Apelqvist (editor), MD, PhD, Associate Professor
Christian Willy (co-editor), MD, PhD, Professor of Surgery