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Key Resources

  1. Diagnostics and wounds: a consensus document
  2. Calculating bandage pressure in venous leg ulcers

Clinical Reviews & Research - Top 10 Resources

  1. A critical evaluation of the Lund and Browder chart [view PDF]
  2. A multinational survey of the assessment of pain when removing dressings [view PDF]
  3. Are pressure ulcer grading and risk assessment tools useful? [view PDF]
  4. Diabetic foot ulceration: review of best practice [view PDF]
  5. Diagnosing wound infection: the use of C-reactive protein [view PDF]
  6. Pressure ulcer prevention and management: using mattresses and cushions [view PDF]
  7. Recognising necrotising fasciitis [view PDF]
  8. Use of TIME to improve community nurses' wound care knowledge and practice [view PDF]
  9. Using hue, saturation and intensity compared with three other pressure ulcer grading systems [view PDF]
  10. Wound assessment: the patient and the wound [view PDF]
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Editorials And Opinion - Top Resource

  1. Diagnostics can lead us into the future
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Practice Development - Top 16 Resources

  1. Ten top tips for taking a wound swab
  2. A guide to the treatment of pressure ulcers from Grade 1 to Grade 4 [view PDF]
  3. Applied Wound Management Reference Card [view PDF]
  4. Applied Wound Managment Assessment Chart [view PDF]
  5. Bandaging: which bandage to use and when [view PDF]
  6. Disease progression in venous and lymphovenous disease: the need for identification and management [view PDF]
  7. Doppler and ABPI or LOI in screening for arterial disease [view PDF]
  8. Essential Wound Management for Day-to-Day Practice
  9. Heel pressure ulcers: an overview of pressure-relieving equipment [view PDF]
  10. Holistic management of chronic wound pain [view PDF]
  11. Increased bacterial burden and infection: NERDS and STONES [view PDF]
  12. Preventing amputation in patients with diabetes [view PDF]
  13. PURAT: is clinical judgement an effective alternative? [view PDF]
  14. Pyoderma gangrenosum: a diagnosis not to be missed [view PDF]
  15. Recognition of infection in the diabetic foot [view PDF]
  16. The importance of continuous wound measuring [view PDF]
  17. View all Practice development content in Assessment and diagnosis

Understanding Science - Top Resource

  1. Biofilme Einfach erklärt [view PDF]
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Videos And E-media - Top 2 Resources

  1. Assessment and diagnosis of ulcers secondary to lymphovenous disease
  2. Diagnostics masterclass: current and future perspectives
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Clinical Guidelines - Top 3 Resources

  1. Diagnostics and wounds: a consensus document [view PDF]
  2. Identifying criteria for wound infection [view PDF]
  3. Skills for practice: Management of chronic oedema in the community [view PDF]
  4. View all Clinical guidelines in Assessment and diagnosis

Books - Top Resource

  1. Wound Healing: A Systematic Approach to Advanced Wound Healing and Management
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News - Top 5 Resources

  1. Wound Update
  2. 13th Annual European Pressure Ulcer Meeting – deadline for abstracts 28th February 2010
  3. 14th Annual Oxford-European Wound Healing School, 4-7 August 2010: Final Announcement and Registration
  4. Call for papers: Wounds International 2011
  5. Early bird registration now open: Cape Town 2011
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Reports And Proceedings - Top Resource

  1. Meeting report on advanced wound care masterclass: Diagnostics - current and future perspectives
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