Predicting complex acute wound healing in patients from a wound expertise centre registry: A prognostic study

International Wound Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 531-536

  Ubbink, Dirk T ^a   Lindeboom, Robert ^a   Eskes, Anne M ^a,b   Brull, Huub ^c   Legemate, Dink A ^a   Vermeulen, Hester ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Orthopaedic Surgery   (Netherlands)

^c Mitralis Expertise Centre for Wound Care   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acute wounds; Prediction; Prognosis; Wound expertise centre; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARM; ARTICLE; CUTANEOUS PARAMETERS; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HEALING IMPAIRMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LEG; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; NECK; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REGISTRATION; TRUNK; VERY ELDERLY; WOUND; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION; ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; AGE; CHILD; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; SKIN ULCER; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME FACTOR; YOUNG ADULT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SKIN ULCER; TIME FACTORS; WOUND HEALING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84941742187     PISSN: 17424801     EISSN: 1742481X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/iwj.12149     Document Type: Article

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