Specialized nurse-led care of chronic wounds during hospitalization and after discharge: A randomized controlled trial.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Sili, Alessandro; Zaghini, Francesco; Monaco, Dario; Molin, Alberto Dal; Mosca, Nella; Piredda, Michela; Fiorini, Jacopo
- Source
- Nursing Management. Mar2023, Vol. 54 Issue 3, p46-54. 9p.
- Subject
- *WOUND healing
*STATISTICS
*CHRONIC wounds & injuries
*ACADEMIC medical centers
*ONE-way analysis of variance
*PATIENT readmissions
*TREATMENT effectiveness
*RANDOMIZED controlled trials
*T-test (Statistics)
*HOSPITAL care
*KAPLAN-Meier estimator
*DESCRIPTIVE statistics
*CHI-squared test
*STATISTICAL sampling
*DATA analysis
*DATA analysis software
*WOUND care
*DISCHARGE planning
- Language
- ISSN
- 0744-6314
A study found that specialized nurse-led care of patients with chronic wounds quadrupled the probability of healing and reduced the number of treatment weeks and hospital readmissions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]