Skin tears

Journal of Community Nursing

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 14-18

  Benbow, Maureen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing process; Healing process; Skin tears

Indexed keywords

EID: 65649147202     PISSN: 02634465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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