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A Review of Skin and the Effects of Aging on Skin Structure and Function
Venous Leg Ulcers in the Elderly Patient: Associated Stress, Social Support, and Coping
Diabetes Mellitus and the Elderly: Special Considerations for Foot Ulcer Prevention and Care
Preventing Skin Tears in a Nursing and Rehabilitation Center: An Interdisciplinary Effort
Softening the Pain of Cancer-Related Wounds
Pain from Skin and Wound Conditions: Part 1
Using Education to Increase Self-Care for the Person with an Ostomy
Dressing the Discomfort: Managing Radiation Therapy-Induced Dermatitis
A Retrospective Evaluation of Digital Wound Imaging to Predict Response to Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment
Lateral Rotation Mattresses for Wound Healing
The Mysterious Calciphylaxis: Wounds with Eschar — To Debride or Not to Debride?
Commentary on The Mysterious Calciphylaxis: Wounds with Eschars - To Debride or Not to Debride?
Hemophilia and Maggots: From Hospital Admission to Healed Wound
Subfascial Endoscopic Perforating Vein Surgery (SEPS) for the Treatment of Venous Ulcers
Prescription for Excellence: An Ostomy Clinic
Telehealth for Wound Management in Long-term Care
The State of the Science on Urinary Incontinence. A look at the proceedings of the conference, "Urinary Incontinence: Research, Practice, and Policy Issues"
The Process of Developing Best Practice Guidelines for Nurses in Ontario: Risk Assessment and Prevention of Pressure Ulcer
Skin Assessment and Pressure Ulcer Care in Hospital-based Skilled Nursing Facilities
Bedrails: Restraints or Enablers?
Quality of Care after Ostomy Surgery: A Perspective Study of Patients
Pain in Fungating Wounds: Another Perspective
Understanding Venous Leg Ulcer Pain: Results of a Longitudinal Study
A Comprehensive Program to Prevent Pressure Ulcers in Long-Term Care: Exploring Costs and Outcomes
Assessing Venous Ulcer Population Characteristics and Practices in a Home Care Community
A Comparison of Cost and Efficacy of Three Incontinence Skin Barrier Products
An Innovative Teaching Strategy for Pressure Ulcer Documentation: The Case for Computer-based Learning
Implementing a Pressure Ulcer Prevention Program and Enhancing the Role of the CWOCN: Impact on Outcomes
Validity and Reliability of the Perineal Assessment Tool
Self-Esteem Disturbance in Patients with Urinary Diversions: Assessing the Void
Development of an Evidence-based Specialty Support Surface Decision Tool
A Three-Year Multiphase Pressure Ulcer Prevalence/Incidence Study in a Regional Referral Hospital
Prevalence and Incidence Studies of Pressure Ulcers in Two Long-Term Care Facilities in Canada
Managing Wound Care Outcomes?Part 1
Determining the Efficacy of a Pressure Ulcer Prevention Program by Collecting Prevalence and Incidence Data: A Unit-Based Effort
Using Epidemiology in Patient Education for Post-Prostatectomy Urinary Incontinence
Applying Split-Thickness Skin Grafts: A Step-by-Step Clinical Guide and Nursing Implications
A Historical Overview of Pressure Ulcer Literature of the Past 35 Years
Pain Doesn't Have to be a Part of Wound Care
Calciphylaxis: A Case Study with Differential Diagnosis
Analysis of Localized Erythema using Clinical Indicators and Spectroscopy
Knowledge of Pressure Ulcers by Undergraduate Nursing Students in Brazil
The Hype in Hypoallergenic
Understanding the Origin of Wound Pain during Dressing Change
Assessing Quality of Life in Patients with Chronic Leg Ulceration using the Medical Outcomes Short Form-36 Questionnaire
The Chronic Wound and the Family
Quality of Life in Patients with Stomas: The Montreux Study
A Look at the Purpose and Outcomes of Colostomy Irrigations
New Approaches to a Timeless Dilemma
Beyond Safety and the Nursing Shortage: A Threat to the Heart of Nursing
A Proposed Method for Quantifying Low-Air-Loss Mattress Performance by Moisture Transport
Bacterial Growth Guideline: Reassessing its Clinical Relevance in Wound Healing
Validation of Wagner's Classification: A Literature Review
No-Rinse, One-Step Bed Bath: The Effects on the Occurrence of Skin Tears in a Long-Term Care Setting
The Convexity Controversy
Plain Talk about Wound Pain
Evaluation of Two Calcium Alginate Dressings in the Management of Venous Ulcers
Preparing the Wound for Healing: The Effect of Activated Polyacrylate Dressing on Debridement
A Study to Compare a New Self-Adherent Soft Silicone Dressing with a Self-Adherent Polymer Dressing in Stage II Pressure Ulcers
Patient Teaching: Intestinal Obstruction
Chronic Wound Pain and Palliative Cancer Care
Improving Accuracy of Wound Measurement in Clinical Practice
Long-Term Outcomes of Full-Thickness Pressure Ulcers: Healing and Mortality
Hydrogel Wound Dressings: Where Do We Stand in 2003?
An Interesting Side Effect of Home Oxygen Therapy
Managing Oversight of Colostomy Irrigation in Long Term-Care
Recognizing Spiritual Distress
Woundoscopy: A New Technique For Examining Deep, Nonhealing Wounds
A Premature Infant with Skin Injury Successfully Treated with Bilayered Cellular Matrix
Efficacy of Pulsed Low-Intensity Ultrasound in Wound Healing: A Single-Case Design
Outcomes of Subatmospheric Pressure Dressing Therapy on Wounds of the Diabetic Foot
Reducing Epibole Using Topical Hyperbaric Oxygen and Electrical Stimulation
New HCPCS Codes for Ostomy Supplies
Relieving Pain during Dressing Changes in the Elderly
Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Dressing for Use in Malodorous, Exuding Wounds
A Prospective, Randomized, Controlled Double-Blind Study of a Moisturizer for Xerosis of the Feet in Patients with Diabetes
Managing Wound Pain in Patients with Vacuum-Assisted Closure Devices
Healing a Wound with an Exposed Herrington Rod: A Case Study
The Importance of Coordinating Ostomy Care and Teaching across Settings
The Patient with Skin Disease: An Approach for Nondermatologists
Sacral Skin Blood Perfusion: A Factor in Pressure Ulcers?
Clinical and Cost Effectiveness of a Cleanser Protectant Lotion for Treatment of Perineal Skin Breakdown in Low-Risk Patients with Incontinence
Necrotizing Fasciitis: A Diagnostic and Management Challenge
Quality of Life: Healing the Brain and The Body
Learning to be "Present" in the Pain Experience
Intact Skin - An Integrity Not to be Lost
Using a Castor Oil-Balsam of Peru-Trypsin Ointment to Assist in Healing Skin Graft Donor Sites
Atraumatic Dressings
Implementing the PUSH Tool in Clinical Practice: Revisions and Result
An Evaluation of an Adhesive Hydrocellular Foam Dressing and a Self-Adherent Soft Silicone Foam Dressing in a Nursing Home Setting
Neuropathic and Ischemic Changes of the Foot in Brazilian Patients with Diabetes
Patient Privacy: How Far is Too Far?
Clinicians and Product Sales Representatives: Developing a Relationship that Works
A Survey of Current Physical Therapy Practices in Wound Care
Lessons Learned in Research: An Attempt to Study the Effects of Magnetic Therapy
Out with the Old, In with the Old?
A First Impression Can Be Deceiving
Ostomy Products are Not Created Equally
Offloading Difficult Wounds and Conditions in the Diabetic Patient
Utilizing the Ankle Brachial Index in Clinical Practice
Assessing Foot Care Knowledge in a Rural Population with Diabetes
Relieving the Pain of Stage 4 Graft-versus-Host Disease of the Skin: The Role of Soft Silicone Dressings as Adjuncts to Medical Management
Modern Management of Women with Stress Urinary Incontinence: Part 1
Modern Management of Women with Stress Urinary Incontinence: Part 2
Male Bladder Control Problems: A Guide To Assessment
A Review of Perineal Skin Care Protocols and Skin Barrier Product Use
An Ostomy Can Mean Continence
Preparing the Wound Bed 2003: Focus on Infection and Inflammation
A Consensus Report on the Use of Vacuum-Assisted Closure in Chronic, Difficult-to-Heal Wounds
Searching for Evidence-Based Medicine in Wound Care: An Introduction
Cost-effectiveness of Becaplermin for Nonhealing Neuropathic Diabetic Foot Ulcers
Parastomal Hernias
The Anatomy of Incontinence - What Practitioners and Patients Need to Know
Identifying and Treating Reversible Causes of Urinary Incontinence
Indwelling Catheter Management: From Habit-based to Evidence-based Practice
Promoting Continence: Simple Strategies with Major Impact
Using Role Models in Ostomy Rehabilitation
Chronic Fall Risk among Aged Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes
Noncontact Normothermic Wound Therapy and Offloading in the Treatment of Neuropathic Foot Ulcers in Patients with Diabetes
Pressure Ulcers in Nursing Homes: Does Negligence Litigation Exceed Available Evidence?
Healing Shingles with Moist Occlusive Dressings
Creating an Ostomy Product Formulary
An Evaluation of the Canadian Ostomy Assessment Guide
A Randomized, Controlled Study to Compare the Effectiveness of Two Foam Dressings in the Management of Lower Leg Ulcers
Restoration of Body Weight, Function, and Wound Healing after Severe Burns Using the Anabolic Agent Oxandrolone is Not Age Dependent
The Position on Preoperative Stoma Site Positioning
A Comparison of an Antimicrobial Wound Cleanser to Normal Saline in Reduction of Bioburden and its Effect on Wound Healing
Impact of Antimicrobial Gauze on Bacterial Colonies in Wounds that Require Packing
The King's Royal Urine
Application of a Wound Pouch over an Enterocutaneous Fistula: A Step-by- Step Approach
Ethical Considerations of Elder Abuse: Identifying the Breach
Preventing Foot Ulceration and Amputation by Decompressing Peripheral Nerves in Patients with Diabetic Neuropathy
Using Hyaluronic Acid Derivatives and Cultured Autologous Fibroblasts and Keratinocytes in a Lower Limb Wound in a Patient with Diabetes: A Case Report
Offloading Diabetic Foot Wounds Using the Scotchcast Boot: A Retrospective Study
Who is Really Providing Ostomy Care Today?
Making the Case for Using a Silicone Dressing in Burn Wound Management
A Nursing Analysis of the Causes of and Approaches for Urinary Incontinence among Elderly Women in Nursing Homes (PART 1)
A Nursing Analysis of the Causes of and Approaches for Urinary Incontinence among Elderly Women in Nursing Homes (PART 2)
Soft Tissue Reconstruction of the Foot with a Reverse Flow Sural Artery Neurofasciocutaneous Flap
Diabetic Heel Ulcers: A Major Risk Factor for Lower Extremity Amputation
The Power of Knowledge
Considering Patient Priorities when Choosing a Dressing
Comparing a Foam Composite to a Hydrocellular Foam Dressing in the Management of Venous Leg Ulcers: A Controlled Clinical Study
Wound Instillation — The Next Step in Negative Pressure Wound Therapy. Lessons Learned from Initial Experiences
What Ostomy Patients Still Don’t Know 54 Years Later
A Discussion of Silver as an Antimicrobial Agent: Alleviating the Confusion
Silver Deposition and Tissue Staining Associated with Wound Dressings Containing Silver
Negative Pressure Wound Therapy to Treat Peri-prosthetic Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infection after Incisional Herniorrhaphy. A Case Study and Literature Review
Adjuvant Dressing for Negative Pressure Wound Therapy in Burns
Is There a Gap in Ostomy Rehabilitation?
Pressure Ulcers in German Nursing Homes and Acute Care Hospitals: Prevalence, Frequency, and Ulcer Characteristics
Developing a Pressure Ulcer Risk Assessment Scale for Patients in Long-Term Care
Xerosis and Pruritus in Elderly Patients, Part 1
Re-introducing Honey in the Management of Wounds and Ulcers - Theory and Practice
Topical Hyperbaric Oxygen and Electrical Stimulation: Exploring Potential Synergy
Ultraviolet Light C in the Treatment of Chronic Wounds with MRSA: A Case Study
Mind-Body Techniques in Wound Healing
Modifications of the Great Toe Fibular Flap for Diabetic Forefoot and Toe Reconstruction
Pediatric Pressure Ulcer Prevalence — One Hospital’s Experience
Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia Syndrome Bullous Lesions Treated with Trypsin-Balsam of Peru-Castor Oil Ointment: A Case Study
Management of a Complex Wound in a Challenging Home Health Care Patient
Infections of the Peristomal Skin
Treating Venous Insufficiency Ulcers with Soft Silicone Dressing
