Abstract
Consideration of drug usability characteristics is important during the design process. Although many wound management products have been developed in recent years, there are few studies on their usability. We investigated the needs and characteristics of wound management products required by medical professionals, so as to consider these in future development projects. Semi-structured interviews were conducted in a group of healthcare professionals. Interview responses were analyzed based on thematic analysis. Four themes common to all facilities were secondary wounds, adaptability of materials, convenience, and physicochemical properties. Economic efficiency of medical care was found to be considered only at the hospital, and quality of life of patients was found to be considered only at the home palliative care clinic. Requirements for wound management products can be affected by participants’ roles and their facility settings. However, there were needs common to all fields that all wound management products should aim to incorporate.
Highlights
Chronic wounds such as pressure ulcers (PU) and diabetic gangrene are often difficult to treat.They can trigger infectious diseases and affect underlying diseases and cause considerable human and economic human costs in treatment [1,2]
Facilities and participants were selected based on purpose-oriented sampling, where participants were medical doctors, nurses, pharmacists, or dietitians who worked at a home palliative care clinic, university hospital, cardiovascular hospital, or general hospital and were engaged in the treatment of chronic wounds at least once a month
We investigated in the clinic and hospitals which have different compositions of patients; it was regarded to reach the theoretical saturation in this study
Summary
Chronic wounds such as pressure ulcers (PU) and diabetic gangrene are often difficult to treat. They can trigger infectious diseases and affect underlying diseases and cause considerable human and economic human costs in treatment [1,2]. Chronic wounds are treated with topical products (ointments, creams, or sprays); wound dressings; and negative-pressure wound therapy (NPWT) [4,5,6,7]. Dressings are easy to use and can be applied by family and caregivers, as well as healthcare professionals. They are more expensive than topical products [12].
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