Digital photography in wound care.
Many nurses caring for patients with wounds do not have access to a medical photographer and have attempted to capture wound images as an unambiguous record of wound status. This often forms part of an initial wound assessment and is used throughout the treatment programme.
Hayes
Susan
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Department of Vascular Surgery, Good Hope Hospital NHS Trust, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands.
Dodds
Simon
S
D006801:Humans; D009737:Nursing Records; D010781:Photography / Q000379:methods*; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation; D014945:Wound Healing; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000451:nursing*