Wound healing and cost-saving benefits of combining negative-pressure wound therapy with silver

Advances in Skin and Wound Care

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 562-565

  Karr, Jeffrey C ^a   De Mola, Fernando Loret ^a   Pham, Tri ^a   Tooke, Leslie ^a  

^a LAKELAND REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost savings; Negative pressure wound therapy; Wound healing and silver

Indexed keywords

SILVER DERIVATIVE;

AGED; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST CONTROL; DEBRIDEMENT; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; FOOT ULCER; HUMAN; LEG ULCER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKIN ULCER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND HEALING;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COST SAVINGS; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; FOOT ULCER; HUMANS; LEG ULCER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SILVER COMPOUNDS; SKIN ULCER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84893778017     PISSN: 15277941     EISSN: 15388654     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ASW.0000434518.86905.8a     Document Type: Article

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