Feature: A clinically relevant wound assessment method to monitor healing progression

Ostomy Wound Management

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 42-49

  Barber, Sharon ^a  

^a Long Term Acute Care   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANTHROPOMETRY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOCUMENTATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; NURSING; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; REVIEW; SKIN CARE; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; WOUND HEALING;

ALGORITHMS; ANTHROPOMETRY; DOCUMENTATION; HUMANS; NORTH CAROLINA; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING RECORDS; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKIN CARE; SOFTWARE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 41849130301     PISSN: 08895899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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