Chronic wounds: Treatment consensus.
The Wound Healing Foundation (WHF) recognised a need for an unbiased consensus on the best treatment of chronic wounds. A panel of 13 experts were invited to a virtual meeting which took place on 27 March 2021. The proceedings were organised in the sub‐sections diagnosis, debridement, infection cont...
| Published in: | Wound Repair & Regeneration Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 156 - 172 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2022
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