title: Existing tools: are they meeting the challenges of pressure ulcer healing?
abstract: The measure of a chronic wound's progress (or lack of progress) toward healing is difficult. An instrument designed to measure healing in pressure ulcers must conform to two statistical concepts: validity and reliability. Existing tools are examined, based on this conceptual statistical framework. A model for the perfect wound healing instrument can be described.
authors.affiliation: Division of Gerontology/Geriatric Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA.
authors.forename: D R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Thomas
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D003668:Pressure Ulcer / Q000145:classification / Q000451:nursing* / Q000503:physiopathology; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014945:Wound Healing