Negative pressure wound therapy for skin grafts and surgical wounds healing by primary intention

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2012, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Webster, Joan ^a,b,c   Scuffham, Paul ^b   Sherriff, Karen L ^b   Stankiewicz, Monica ^a   Chaboyer, Wendy P ^b  

^a ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EVENT; AMBULATORY CARE; BLISTER; CLINICAL OUTCOME; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FRACTURE BLISTER; GRAFT FAILURE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY RATE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN INTENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SEROMA; SKIN GRAFT; SUCTION DRAINAGE; SURGICAL WOUND; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THERAPY EFFECT; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND CARE; WOUND COMPLICATION; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION; BANDAGE; INSTRUMENTATION; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGERY;

BANDAGES; HUMANS; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84864026358     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD009261.pub2     Document Type: Review

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