Data and Doing: Using Wound Size to Evaluate Wound Care in Venous Ulcers.

Adv Skin Wound Care

Barbara Bates-Jensen, PhD, RN, FAAN, is Professor, Nursing and Medicine, University of California-Los Angeles School of Nursing and David Geffen School of Medicine; a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing; and President of the Wound Reach Foundation. Gregory Bohn, MD, FACS, is a Surgeon and Medical Director, West Shore Medical Center for Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine, Manistee, Michigan; President of the American Board of Wound Healing; a Fellow of the American College of Hyperbaric Medicine and of the American Professional Wound Care Association; and Vice President of the Wound Reach Foundation.

Published: August 2016

Measuring and monitoring wound progress by size are an important management tool. Wound progress and size can help assess effectiveness of therapy and predict healing, while preparing for application of advanced wound products and treatments. The authors outline methods of tracking wound size and predictors of healing in venous leg ulcers.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.ASW.0000483250.24007.23DOI Listing

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