What is needed to monitor healing in the outpatient clinic setting?

To monitor healing in the outpatient setting, clinicians need: easily usable tools to collect data, whether a checklist or software program real-time analysis (or at least timely analysis) of the data relative to a treatment protocol a method of analysis that allows manipulation of the data for multiple purposes communication of the analysis; future actions should be based on this analysis. The result will be a dynamic, cyclical monitoring system, most meaningful when it is not retrospective and static, but fluid so that adjustments can be made as needed.