Organization of wound healing services: The Danish experience and the importance of surgery

Wound Repair and Regeneration

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 452-457

  Gottrup, Finn ^a,b  

^a ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES TENDON; ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION; DEBRIDEMENT; EXPERIENCE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE PERFUSION; WOUND CARE; WOUND HEALING;

DENMARK; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; PATIENT CARE TEAM; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0345446027     PISSN: 10671927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1524-475X.2003.11609.x     Document Type: Review

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