Surgical wound dehiscence in an Australian community nursing service: Time and cost to healing

Journal of Wound Care

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 377-383

  Sandy Hodgetts, K ^a   Leslie, G D ^a   Lewin, G ^b   Hendrie, D ^a   Carville, K ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Silver Chain   (Australia)

Author keywords

Health care costs; Infection; Surgical wound dehiscence; Wound healing; Wound management

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; MALE; NURSING; PHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURGICAL WOUND; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND HEALING;

AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84978371348     PISSN: 09690700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12968/jowc.2016.25.7.377     Document Type: Article

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