Multidisciplinary approach to chronic wound care: Our 2-year Newfoundland and Labrador experience

Journal of Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 13, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Brown Maher, Tracey ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE;

CELLULITIS; CHRONIC WOUND; CONFERENCE PAPER; COST CONTROL; DEBRIDEMENT; DECUBITUS; DIABETIC FOOT; HUMAN; LIMB AMPUTATION; OSTEOMYELITIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULCER; WOUND CARE; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND HEALING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; CANADA; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; IN VITRO STUDY; LEG ULCER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE; SKIN ULCER; VARICOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; DIABETIC FOOT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG ULCER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; OSTEOMYELITIS; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PRESSURE ULCER; SKIN ULCER; VARICOSE ULCER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68349083674     PISSN: 12034754     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2310/7750.2009.00006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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