Measure: A proposed assessment framework for developing best practice recommendations for wound assessment

Wound Repair and Regeneration

Volumn 12, Issue 3 SUPPL., 2004, Pages

  Keast, David H ^a,g   Bowering, C Keith ^b   Evans, A Wayne ^c   Mackean, Gerald L ^d   Burrows, Catherine ^e   D'Souza, Lincoln ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e QUEEN ELIZABETH II HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^f MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^g NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANAMNESIS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EVALUATION; EXUDATE; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PARAMETER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; TECHNIQUE; WOUND HEALING; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; HUMANS; WOUND HEALING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 3042731581     PISSN: 10671927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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