Patients' prediction of their wound healing time.
Understanding and managing patients' expectations can help improve their adherence to treatment for chronic wounds; however, little is known concerning about their expectations regarding healing time. Recruited subjects were asked to predict how long their wounds would take to heal and their charts...
| Published in: | Wound Repair & Regeneration Vol. 26; no. 3; pp. 297 - 300 |
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| Format: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Wiley-Blackwell
May/Jun2018
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