Practical Patient Care - The Magazine Dedicated To Wound Care and Infection Control

Today's healthcare providers face the challenging task of increasing the standard of care afforded to each patient, whilst, at the same time, reducing the operational costs associated with providing such improvements.

Practical Patient Care is published specifically to provide medical practitioners and senior managers with the information they need in order to formulate and deliver successful wound-management and infection-control strategies that will allow them to achieve their challenging objectives.

HELPING YOU CREATE EFFECTIVE WOUND CARE AND INFECTION CONTROL STRATEGIES

Infection control is an area of increasing concern, especially as recent studies have shown that healthcare associated infections (such as MRSA) are far more prevalent than was previously thought. It is for this reason that sterilisation and disinfection within healthcare facilities have become essential topics for examination. Also of note, the international market for wound care was recently estimated to be worth more than $7 billion, causing an increase in both the cost of care and the average length of a patient's stay.

Each edition of Practical Patient Care combines analysis of current and future trends with the opinions and expertise of the industry’s best-known figures. Practical Patient Care provides best practice and innovative product-based solutions to assist each reader in the successful improvement of their facility’s wound-care and infection-control management.

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The publication is supported online by Hospitalmanagement.net, which is used as a daily reference point for current opinion and the latest industry developments. Together, these platforms expose products and services to those who need them most and, through our assortment of channels, ensure that those involved gain the kind of exposure they require, as well as pinpointing their future partners.

TARGET LEADING CLINICAL PRACTITIONERS AND SENIOR HOSPITAL MANAGERS

The foundation of the high quality and carefully targeted readership accessed by Practical Patient Care, allows the publication to be utilised as a means of communication to a readership comprised of heads of nursing, primary care physicians, wound care specialists and heads of infection control. These readers are located within the largest and most important medical facilities throughout Europe and the US. The publication also reached hospital directors, managers and heads of trust.

A total of 12, 250 copies of Practical Patient Care are distributed, although the estimated readership is 44,000.

NEXT ISSUE: INSIGHT FROM LEADING WOUND CARE AND INFECTION CONTROL PROFESSIONALS

In the next issue of Practical Patient Care, you can look forward to:

• Infection control: Kathy L. Warye, chief executive of the Association of Professionals in Infection Control explains why healthcare authorities are becoming increasingly alarmed at the emergence of increasingly virulent MRSA bugs.
• Prevention/sharps: Needlestick prevention devices have grown in popularity over recent years as the healthcare profession takes steps to protect its workers against injury and infection. Frost & Sullivan looks at the use of devices across Africa.
• Wound care: Peter Vowden, consultant vascular surgeon at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, explains how healthcare professionals can identify cases at an early stage and hence threat the patient more cost-effectively and in a way that will reduce the level of discomfort.
• Sterilisation and disinfection: The importance of disinfected and sterilised goods is fundamental but differs greatly. William A. Rutala, Ph.D, M.P.H. of the University of North Carolina explains.
• Education and training materials: Harriet Baugh Loehne, clinical educator and board member at the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care, talks us through some of the latest tools to be added to a facility's training armoury, and where future developments may lead this area.

Other highlights of the issue will include infections in ICU, after-incident treatment, wound infection and procurement and supply.