High mortality in patients with chronic wounds

Wound Repair and Regeneration

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 526-528

  Escandon, Julia ^a   Vivas, Alejandra C ^a   Tang, Jennifer ^a   Rowland, Katherine J ^b   Kirsner, Robert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b National Healing Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC WOUND; COMORBIDITY; DECUBITUS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC FOOT; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; LEG ULCER; LETTER; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; AMPUTATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GANGRENE; HIP FRACTURES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN ULCER; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79960097322     PISSN: 10671927     EISSN: 1524475X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-475X.2011.00699.x     Document Type: Letter

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