Does this patient have an infection of a chronic wound?

JAMA

Volumn 307, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 605-611

  Reddy, Madhuri ^a   Gill, Sudeep S ^b   Wu, Wei ^c   Kalkar, Sunila R ^c   Rochon, Paula A ^c,d  

^a RESEARCH AND TRAINING INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c WOMEN S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 6;

CHRONIC WOUND; DECUBITUS; DIABETIC FOOT; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INFRARED THERMOMETER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MEDICAL HISTORY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PAIN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN ULCER; VENOUS STASIS; WOUND FLUID; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84863067501     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2012.98     Document Type: Review

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