Can sutures get wet? Prospective randomised controlled trial of wound management in general practice

British Medical Journal

Volumn 332, Issue 7549, 2006, Pages 1053-1054

  Heal, Clare ^a,b   Buettner, Petra ^a   Raasch, Beverly ^a   Browning, Sheldon ^b   Graham, David ^b   Bidgood, Rachel ^b   Campbell, Margaret ^b   Cruikshank, Robert ^b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCISION; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SUTURING METHOD; WOUND; WOUND DRESSING; ADULT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; SKIN DISEASE; SURGICAL INFECTION; SUTURE; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCLUSIVE DRESSINGS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN DISEASES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; SUTURES; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33646471994     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.38800.628704.AE     Document Type: Article

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