Feature: Streamlining the management of patients with problematic wounds: Must a multidisciplinary team formulate all patient management plans?

Wounds

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  Dobke, Marek K ^a   Bhavsar, Dhaval ^b   Gosman, Amanda A ^b   De Neve, Joan ^b   De Neve, Brian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

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