New ASPEN Survey Examines Enteral Nutrition Access, Funding Issues
The American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN) is calling for enteral nutrition providers to take a new survey focusing on enteral nutrition (EN) access in hospitals, outpatient care settings, and in patients’ homes.
Clinicians who are based in the United States and practice at a facility or organization that provides EN are eligible to take the survey.
“EN access involves EN products, quality nutrition support professionals, EN reimbursement, and adequate EN systems of care,” the survey announcement said. “The purpose of this survey is to determine the extent to which access issues affect the adequate delivery of EN to qualified patients from the provider’s perspective.”
Identities of survey respondents and their individual responses will be kept confidential, with results aggregated for publication and presentation. Respondents can elect to be entered into a gift card drawing upon completing the survey. The survey is open through June 16.
Wound Care Collaborative Community Survey Seeks Input on Wound Dressing Standards
The Wound Care Collaborative Community has launched a survey on wound dressing standards “rooted in clinical relevance, biological validity, and consistency across product development and evaluation,” according to a May 5 Mölnlycke Health Care announcement.
That announcement quoted Sarah Griffiths Langbord, chair of the WCCC Gaps Dressing Standards work group, in explaining the need for standardization: “Wound dressings are currently evaluated using various test methods, many of which are incompletely specified or insufficiently relevant to real-world wound care scenarios. This has resulted in individualized modifications by test users with no established best practices and no consistent baseline set of standardized tests for pre-clinical evaluations.”
The WCCC survey is open to clinicians, materials management and procurement teams, regulators, and industry experts.
