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Definitions and Guidelines for Assessment of Wounds and Evaluation of Healing

Archives of Dermatology · 1994 · Vol. 130(4) · pp. 489–489

Gerald S. Lazarus✉(University of California, Davis)

Abstract

The report that follows defines wound, acute wound, chronic wound, healing and forms of healing, wound assessment, wound extent, wound burden, and wound severity. The utility of these definitions is demonstrated as they relate to the healing of a skin wound, but these definitions are broadly applicable to all wounds.

Wound Healing and Treatments Surgical Sutures and Adhesives Bone Tissue Engineering MaterialsMedicineWound healingChronic woundIntensive care medicineSurgery

MeSH terms

Acute DiseaseChronic DiseasePressure UlcerHumansTerminology as TopicSeverity of Illness IndexSkinWound HealingWounds and InjuriesPractice Guidelines as Topic

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782

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12.62

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