Infected wounds: Tipping the balance with STONES

Nursing

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 62-

  Sarvis, Connie M ^a  

^a Seven Oaks General Hospital Winnipeg Manitoba   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EXUDATE; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NURSING; NURSING ASSESSMENT; ODOR; SKIN TEMPERATURE; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CAUSALITY; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; HUMANS; NURSING ASSESSMENT; ODORS; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SPECIMEN HANDLING; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 34347353382     PISSN: 03604039     EISSN: 15388689     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NURSE.0000279444.54811.6c     Document Type: Short Survey

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