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Clinical and Instrumental Assessment of Pressure Ulcers

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Science and Practice of Pressure Ulcer Management

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Wound assessment represents an essential step in wound management. The techniques involved play an important role in correct diagnosis and proper treatment of chronic, invalidating lesions such as pressure ulcers. However, what is required is a uniform, standardized, and well-established approach to wound assessment, so that non-invasive measurements may be used to identify a management strategy, determine proper standards of treatment, and appropriately reassess progress to healing together with specific modifications of intervention.

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  1. Department of Dermatology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

    Diego Mastronicola MD (Consultant Dermatologist) & Marco Romanelli MD, PhD

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  1. Department of Dermatology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

    Marco Romanelli MD, PhD

  2. Wound Healing Research Unit, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, UK

    Michael Clark PhD

  3. Clinical Faculty, Oxford Medical School, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    George Cherry D.Phil (Oxon)

  4. Centre de l’Arche, Le Mans, France

    Denis Colin MD, PhD

  5. Nursing Science, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Tom Defloor RN, PhD

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Mastronicola, D., Romanelli, M. (2006). Clinical and Instrumental Assessment of Pressure Ulcers. In: Romanelli, M., Clark, M., Cherry, G., Colin, D., Defloor, T. (eds) Science and Practice of Pressure Ulcer Management. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-84628-134-2_11

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