Research in Wound Healing: Bridging the Gap - Laboratory to Clinician

Introduction
Distribution of information between professional groups has not always been sufficient in the wound healing area. This may have resulted in gaps of knowledge and understanding and can be a reason, that few of the discoveries created by the basic researchers have been implemented as routine clinical treatments.

Objective
To improve the knowledge and understanding between professional groups in this case the researchers and the clinicians.

Methods
The following should be initiated: Extension of information, knowledge and understanding of the working procedures; How to use research results clinically and the position of each group in the organisation of treatment teams. A step in this direction could, from the author’s point of view, be that publications related to basic as well as clinical research should include a few lines describing how the researchers expect their work could improve the outcome for the patients in the future. This would force the researcher to think more universally, when trying to place his research in the development sequence from basic research to a routine clinical treatment.  [...]