A study of the efficiency and convenience of an advanced portable Wound Measurement System (VISITRAK™)

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1265-1269

  Sugama, Junko ^a   Matsui, Yuko ^a   Sanada, Hiromi ^b   Konya, Chizuko ^a   Okuwa, Mayumi ^a   Kitagawa, Atsuko ^b  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Nursing; Planimetry; Reliability; Validity; Wound area; Wound measurement

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL NURSING RESEARCH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DECUBITUS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NURSING; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STANDARD; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALIDATION STUDY; WOUND HEALING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTHROPOMETRY; CLINICAL NURSING RESEARCH; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PRESSURE ULCER; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 34250667631     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2007.01790.x     Document Type: Article

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