Chronic wounds "must be addressed in DMP" (disease management programme):
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
More attention must be paid to the treatment of open wounds in the German government's disease management programme (DMP) for diabetes mellitus type 2, says the medical device industry association, BVMed. The statement comes in response to the ministry of health's legislation on pre-requisites necessary to set up structured treatment programmes for the disease, published last month. BVMed estimates that the treatment of chronic wounds amounts to 25% of overall diabetes treatment costs. Some 4 million patients suffer from chronic wounds in Germany, and approximately 1 million of them are diabetics.