US Wound Registry Announces Acceptance as Qualified Clinical Data Registry by CMS
Summary
According to the USWR Executive Director, Dr. Caroline Fife, physicians practicing wound care have been frustrated with the lack of relevant measures within the PQRS program.We also worked with the Institute for Clinical Outcomes to develop the Wound Healing Index (WHI), a mathematical model to stratify patients by their level of illness.According to the USWR Executive Director, Dr. Caroline Fife, physicians practicing wound care have been frustrated with the lack of relevant measures within the PQRS program.Importantly, the USWR also included a “patient reported outcome” specifically; the “wound quality of life” tool to better understand the impact that having a chronic non-healing wound has on the day to day life of a patient.“The USWR has been committed to quality practice since 2008 when we started the “Do the Right ThingTM” initiative to get physicians to implement proper diabetic foot ulcer off-loading and venous ulcer compression bandaging as well as screening for arterial disease.We also worked with the Institute for Clinical Outcomes to develop the Wound Healing Index (WHI), a mathematical model to stratify patients by their level of illness.