title: Wound dressings: meeting clinical and biological needs.
abstract: Central to any type of wound therapy is understanding the pathophysiology of healing and danger signals of the most common chronic wounds. This article discusses wound assessment, healing of acute and chronic wounds, factors that retard healing, and summarizes controlled clinical wound dressing literature.
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authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bolton
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authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: van Rijswijk
mesh_terms: D001458:Bandages / Q000592:standards* / Q000600:supply & distribution; D003646:Debridement / Q000379:methods; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D006801:Humans; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000379:methods; D014945:Wound Healing; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000209:etiology / Q000451:nursing* / Q000503:physiopathology