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Data Released on Hospitalizations Related to Pressure Ulcers
A Statistical Brief from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality presents data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project on patterns of utilization and costs for adult hospital stays involving the treatment of pressure ulcers in 2006. More

ConvaTec Acquires Exclusive Worldwide Rights for Negative Pressure Wound Therapy System
ConvaTec, Skillman, New Jersey, has signed a long-term global exclusive license agreement with Boehringer Technologies, Ridgefield, Connecticut, to market and distribute Boehringer's Engenex Negative Pressure Wound Therapy System incorporating Bio-Dome Interface Technology. More

Clinicians Credit Medihoney Use in Helping to Prevent Potential Amputation
Derma Sciences, Inc, Princeton, New Jersey, announced that Medihoney was the focus of a major press conference recently at North Shore Long Island Jewish Hospital in Manhasset, New York. More

New Rapid Wound Pathology Service to Support Managed Wound Healing Centers
The Boca Raton, Florida-based National Healing Corporation, which accounts for 30 percent of the nation's managed wound healing centers, is providing a new rapid wound pathology service to its centers and client hospitals in association with the division of dermatopathology in the Department of Dermatology & Cutaneous Surgery at the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine. More

ASSOCIATION NEWS

American Professional Wound Care Association Plans Conference
The American Professional Wound Care Association will hold its APWCA2009 National Conference on April 2-5, 2009, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. More

Registration Is Open for National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel's Conference
Registration is now open for the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel's 11th National Biennial Conference, ushering in New International Guidelines for Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Treatment: Public Policy & Clinical Practice. More

LEARNING CENTERS

Catheter-Associated UTI Knowledge Center: Improving Practice, Improving Outcomes
Catheter-associated UTI can seriously hinder your patient's recovery and add days to their hospital stay. Recent changes in Medicare reimbursement related to hospital-acquired, catheter-associated UTI has become an issue for nursing staffs. Learn strategies to prevent and treat UTI in your patients through free CE credit, webcasts and more...
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FROM THE PAGES OF ADVANCES IN SKIN & WOUND CARE

Earn CME/CE credit by reading the peer-reviewed, continuing education article in the January 2009 issue of Advances in Skin & Wound Care and taking the test.

• Body Image and Facial Burns
  David CG Sainsbury, BMedSci (Hons), MBBS, MRCS (Eng)

BONUS CONTENT
Be sure to take advantage of this bonus article from one of our sister journals, Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!, at Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. By accessing this content through your eNews link, you can read the article free of charge.

• Get the Facts about the New CMS Payment System
  Kathleen M. White RN, CEA-BC, PhD

Coming in Advances in Skin & Wound Care's February 2009 issue:

• Pressure ulcer prevention
• Interventional patient hygiene
• Charcot neuropathic osteoarthropathy
  

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