Reliability of subjective wound assessment

Burns

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 566-571

  Bloemen, M C T ^a,b   Van Zuijlen, P P M ^a,b,c,d   Middelkoop, E ^a,b,c  

^a ASSOCIATION OF DUTCH BURN CENTRES   (Netherlands)

^b RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Assessment; Epithelialisation; Experience; Graft take; Reliability; Subjective; Wound

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BURN; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ENGRAFTMENT; EPITHELIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAMETER; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND ASSESSMENT; WOUND HEALING;

BURNS; EPITHELIUM; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 79955070029     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2011.02.004     Document Type: Article

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