Clinical activity-based cost effectiveness of traditional versus modern wound management in patients with pressure ulcers

Wounds

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 157-163

  Ohura, Takehiko ^a   Sanada, Hiromi ^b   Mino, Yoshio ^c   Bolton, Laura ^d  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Hanwa Daiichi Senboku Hospital   (Japan)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROMELAIN; BUCLADESINE; PROSTAGLANDIN E1; RETINOIC ACID DERIVATIVE; SULFADIAZINE;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DECUBITUS; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; WOUND CARE; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 2942674887     PISSN: 10447946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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