title: Clinical and financial advantages of moist wound management.
abstract: Best practice wound management includes moist wound healing and using advanced wound care products that promote efficient use of nursing time. Moist wound healing is the key that enables wounds to heal more rapidly with less pain and less scarring, which increases patient satisfaction while decreasing costs.
authors.affiliation: VNA of Somerset Hills, 12 Olcott Avenue, Bernardsville, NJ 07924, USA. smetzger@visitingnurse.org
authors.forename: Stephanie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Metzger
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000191:economics; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009779:Occlusive Dressings / Q000191:economics* / Q000592:standards*; D014945:Wound Healing / Q000502:physiology*; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000451:nursing*