Wear time in two hydrocolloid dressings using a novel in-vivo model

Wounds

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 40-48

  Campbell, Karen E ^a,b   Keast, David ^a   Woodbury, Gail ^a   Houghton, Pamela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b ST JOSEPH S HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EXUDATE; FEMALE; FRICTION; HUMAN; HYDROCOLLOID; MALE; MOBILIZATION; MODEL; PRESSURE; SKIN MANIFESTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND CARE; WOUND DRESSING;

EID: 0037292235     PISSN: 10447946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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