title: Guideline-directed wound care: a patient with a post kidney transplant surgical site infection.
abstract: Clinical guidelines are developed to consolidate the growing body of evidence in wound care, allowing clinicians to provide a systematic approach to wound management. This article examines applying the Canadian Association of Wound Care's best practice guidelines for post-surgical wounds to in the case of a 56-year-old patient with recent kidney transplant, displaying signs of surgical-site infection, as an example of how best practice guidelines can be used to guide care.
authors.affiliation: University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. rebecca.cottrill@gmail.com
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cottrill
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D019983:Guideline Adherence; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D018802:Patient-Centered Care; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000628:therapy*