Maintaining healthy skin around an ostomy: Peristomal skin disorders and self-assessment

Gastrointestinal Nursing

Volumn 9, Issue 2 SUPPL., 2011, Pages 9-13

  Martins, Lina ^a   Samai, Oirda ^b   Fernández, Adelina ^c   Urquhart, Mary ^d   Hansen, Anne Steen ^e  

^a LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^b Jean Marcel General Hospital   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL COMPLEX OF VIGO   (Spain)

^d QUEEN MARGARET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e Coloplast A/S ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

Evidence based nursing; Ostomy; Peristomal skin; Self assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 81755188999     PISSN: 14795248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12968/gasn.2011.9.sup2.9     Document Type: Article

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