J Korean Burn Soc.  2013 Dec;16(2):99-103.

A Preference and Satisfaction Survey on the Wound Management System

• Kang YK
• Hong A
• Lee BC
• Kim D
• Seo CH

Abstract

PURPOSE
The biggest problem of wound healing is a possible occurrence of lesion. Especially, in the case of patients who have a skin injury around exposed body parts, if their treatment period drag on for long time, they can suffer from after-effects and the costs can be passed on to a society. Therefore, in this research, we investigated the need to develop the effective medicine and appliances for the patients by examining which therapy methods are being applying to the skin damage and what is the advantage and limit by evaluating the patient's satisfaction level.
METHODS
We carried out an online and offline survey targeting medical teams in order to analyze device for wound care. A total of 125 medical teams applied to the research, and investigate the level of customer satisfaction.
RESULTS
The moist dressings are the most used method for wound healing. When it comes to the level of customer satisfaction, biological dressing product also has a high satisfaction level. However its high cost tends to limit the use.
CONCLUSION
This research reached a conclusion that it is need to develop a low cost and high efficiency wound care product considering the fact that its high cost and low efficiency induced economic problems. Generally, it is needed to develop a product for skin regeneration based on biological technologies, not a product just for damage cure.

Keyword

Wounds; Injury; Dressings; Biological technology; Wound management system

MeSH Terms

Bandages
Biological Dressings
Human Body
Humans
Methods
Regeneration
Skin
Wound Healing
Wounds and Injuries*