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Wound measurement: can it help us to monitor progression to healing?
1Tissue Viability Department of Continuing Professional Development, Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, UK. m.flanagan@herts.ac.uk
Journal of Wound Care
|June 6, 2003
Abstract:
Wound measurement can help practitioners to monitor the progression to healing. The most effective way of doing this is to calculate the percentage reduction of wound area over time, particularly within the first four weeks.
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