Thinking Fife Steps Ahead with Real World Wound Care Data

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What if we’re measuring success in wound care too narrowly?

In this episode of the Open Wound Research Podcast, Dr. Caroline Fife challenges us to look beyond the individual wound and consider the whole patient. We discuss clinical research, healthcare policy, real-world data, quality measurement, clinical trial design, and why total patient outcomes may tell us far more than wound closure alone.

From understanding how sick our patients really are to rethinking how we design trials and define “winning,” this conversation offers a thought-provoking look at where wound care research needs to go next.

Theme music is « Real as it Gets (Dirty Deed) », by Justin G. Marcellus

Links from the episode:

U.S. Wound Registry: https://uswoundregistry.com/

Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders: https://abwmcertified.org/

Wound Care Collaborative Community: https://www.woundcarecc.org/

Dr. Caroline Fife on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolinefifemd/

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro and origin story

26:31 Medicare Payment Models

31:25 MIPS Cost Measures

49:14 Value-Based Reimbursement

01:04:55 RWE in Wound Care

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