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We undertake research and provide education about chronic wound treatment and management as well as prevention. Our research program includes studies to determine the health and healing needs of people with chronic wounds. We have expertise in venous leg ulcers or mixed aetiology ulcers and pressure injury in community, primary care and hospital settings. Our aim is to enable people with chronic wounds to experience the best possible quality of life through research, critical evaluation of available evidence-based information and community engagement and education.
The Wound Research program leads Australia in chronic wound prevention and management research, research training and health and healing education.
ASPiVLU Randomised Controlled Trial is a national study to investigate if daily 300mg of oral aspirin as an adjunct to compression improves time to healing in people with venous leg ulcers.
The venous leg ulcer Longitudinal Cohort Study
Management of people with venous leg ulcers using primary care services: an analysis of the national BEACH patient-encounter data by Australian general practitioners
Vascular assessment in venous leg ulcer diagnostics and management in Australian primary care settings
Building capacity to optimise Pressure Injury prevention and surveillance across Monash Partners Healthcare services
Barriers and enablers to the use of Venous Leg Ulcer Clinical Practice Guidelines in Australian Primary Care: A qualitative study using the Theoretical Domains Framework.
Our team is multidisciplinary, comprising general practitioner, specialist wound consultants, an epidemiologist, psychologist, research nurses, and study coordinator, post-doctoral fellows and higher degree students.
We have national and international collaborations with basic research scientists, wound experts, health economists, clinicians and researchers.
The Wound Research program has strong links with community, primary and acute care and government agencies. We established the Consumer Advisory Group in 2019. Our vision is to work with patients, their care givers, clinicians and policy makers to improve the quality of care and venous leg ulcer healing outcomes to ensure we build stronger partnerships between patients, researchers and health professionals. The patient voice is central and will ensure our research is patient-centred and relevant to people who are suffering from chronic wounds.
The Wound Consumer Group aims engage patients as partners. Consumer lead driving wound research. We have a group that meets 3 times year to set priorities, strategies and feedback on all things chronic wound related. If this would interest you we would love to hear from you. contact details: med.woundresearchprogram@monash.edu or 03 9903 0656.
Our vision at the Wound Research Group is to work together to improve the quality of care for venous leg ulcer healing outcomes, and to ensure we build stronger partnerships between patients, researchers and health professionals. Your voice will ensure our research is patient-centred and useful to patients. Our mission is to ensure that research findings are translated into clinical practice that are accessible for all.
Inaugural Meeting - 2019
13 consumers meet to discuss their venous leg ulcer experiences. 10 priorities were identified and the plan for an ulcer tool kit was hatched - Consumer Advisory Group Priorities.
Benefits of participating:
“Realise Venous ulcers are quite common”AG1. “chatting with fellow ulcer survivors”AG5. “openness and friendliness”AG4
“I got to go to some information seminars on leg ulcers, and chatting to people who had leg ulcers, so that was interesting” [P25]
The main source of funding for the wound Research program is from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and Medical Research Futures Fund (MRFF).
Phone: +61 3 9903 0656
Fax: +61 3 9905 8880
Email: med.woundresearchprogram@monash.edu
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Wound Research group | Level 6 reception, |
Parking is available in the Alfred Centre Public car park (enter via centre lane from Commercial Road).
ASPiVLU (ASPirin in Venous Leg Ulcer healing) is a clinical trial to determine whether daily aspirin improves healing in adults with venous leg ulcer.
Led by Dr Carolina Weller from Monash University the primary trial outcome is the time to complete healing of venous leg ulcer at or before 12 weeks of treatment.