Factors influencing wound healing: a bedside enabler

Abstract

Influencing factors that must be taken in account on assessment of the patient with a wound can be broadly divided into intrinsic factors that are part of the patients make-up, and extrinsic factors that may exert an outside influence on the outcome of wound healing.¹ As the list may become an endless preamble, history-taking is often difficult and not complete enough to make a full assessment of all factors that influence a patient with a wound.