DEFINING THE WELL-HEALED WOUND

There are many ways of defining a well-healed wound. Clinicians, scien tists, and health care administrators may all have differing views of what constitutes a well-healed wound. In addition to the aspects of he aling that these groups may consider as being important in wound heali ng, the means of measuring wound healing may be diverse and vary in ob jectivity. This paper attempts to address some of these difficulties a nd hopefully emphasizes the importance of continuing to question ways of defining a well-healed wound as this is an important but neglected aspect of wound healing.