Management of Infected Wounds: A Wound Healing Foundation Consensus Statement
The Wound Healing Foundation (WHF) previously organized consensus panels on the management of chronic wounds (2022), acute wounds (2024), and diabetic wounds (2025). This WHF consensus statement, authored by a global interdisciplinary panel of clinicians and researchers, focuses on the management of infected wounds. The panel members reviewed the literature and reached consensus on elements of an evidence-based approach to infected wounds. Using a structured format, this statement progresses from discussing how wound infections develop, how to diagnose them, how to provide the most appropriate antimicrobial and surgical treatment, how to assess response to treatment, and how to further investigate instances of unsuccessful treatment.
Authors
- Martin Clauss (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1598-2209)
- Catherine Dunyach‐Remy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6884-470X)
- G R Sibbald
- Nicolás Cortés-Penfield (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6302-9471)
- Óscar Murillo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5776-8422)
- Rica Tanaka (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6370-0915)
- Klaus Kirketerp‐Møller (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3248-8448)
- Meghan B. Brennan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2316-4150)
- Parham Sendi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7347-6312)
- Laura Parnell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9158-5021)
- Paul Kim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1935-5816)
- Paul Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8092-6353)
- Dot Weir
- E J Peters
- Terry Swanson
- Lindsay Kalan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4980-5128)
- Roman Hayda
- Ilker Uçkay
- Sue Gardner
- Samuel Mandell
- Gojiro Nakagami
- Tze-Woei Tan
- Benjamin A. Lipsky
- Elof Eriksson
Institutions
- University of Southern California (US)
- University of Bern (CH)
- University of Iowa (US)
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- Inserm (FR)
- University of Toronto (CA)
- Université de Montpellier (FR)
- University of Washington (US)
- Brown University (US)
- Rhode Island Hospital (US)
- Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ES)
- Bispebjerg Hospital (DK)
- Bellvitge University Hospital (ES)
- University Hospital of Basel (CH)
- Juntendo University (JP)
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red (ES)
- Universitätsklinik Balgrist (CH)
- Saratoga Hospital (US)
- St John of God Hospital (AU)
- Juntendo University Hospital (JP)
- Amsterdam University Medical Centers (NL)
- Institute of Infection and Immunity (CA)
- University of Nebraska Medical Center (US)
- Université de Nîmes (FR)
- The University of Tokyo (JP)
- The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (US)
- McMaster University (CA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Advances in Wound Care
- Published
- 2026-06-16
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177/21621918261459794
- Primary Topic
- Wound Healing and Treatments
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00