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A joint protocol for home skeletal traction
1Graduate Program, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA.
Orthopedic Nursing
|May 1, 1997
Abstract:
Cost-effective delivery of quality patient care is a major focus of the orthopaedic advanced practice nurse's practice. Long-term skeletal traction therapy for select fractures of the pelvis remains a treatment option for certain patients. The purposes of this article are to describe the development of a joint proposal for home skeletal traction therapy and to analyze the cost savings involved by reviewing a case study of a home traction patient.