October 2011

Scientific articles

  • Challenges facing district nurses in the prevention of pressure ulcers
  • Clinical application of stem cells in wound healing: A near future?
  • Understanding the Patient Experience: Does empowerment link to clinical practice?
  • The influence of Egyptian Propolis on Induced Burn Wound Healing in Diabetic Rats - Antibacterial Mechanism

May 2011

Scientific articles

  • The fight against biofilm infections: Do we have the knowledge and means?
  • Biofilms in wounds: An unsolved problem?
  • Diabetic foot ulcer pain: The hidden burden
  • Topical negative pressure in the treatment of deep sternal infection following cardiac surgery: Five year results of first-line application protocol
  • Wounds Research for Patient Benefit: A five year programme of research in wound care

January 2011

Scientific articles

  • Who will take on
  • Diabetic foot ulcer pain: The hidden burden
  • Anaemia in patients with chronic wounds
  • A survey of the provision of education in wound management to undergraduate nursing students
  • Caring for Patients with Hard-to-Heal Wounds - Homecare Nurses' Narratives

October 2010

Scientific articles

  • Rationale for compression in leg ulcers with
    mixed, arterial and venous aetiology
  • Pressure ulcers in Belgian hospitals:
    What do nurses know and how do they feel
    about prevention?
  • Nutritional Supplement is Associated with a
    Reduction in Healing Time and Improvement
    of Fat Free Body Mass in Patients with Diabetic
    Foot Ulcers
  • Chronic wounds, non-healing wounds or a
    possible alternative?
  • Silver-impregnated dressings reduce wound
    closuretime in marsupialized pilonidal sinus 
  • Venous leg ulcer patients with low ABPIs:
    How much pressure is safe and tolerable? 
  • Adherence to leg ulcer treatment: Changes
    associated with a nursing intervention
    for community care settings

May 2010

Scientific articles

  • Hyperbaric Oxygen and Wounds:
    A tale of two enzymes
  • HBOT in evidence-based wound healing
  • Comparative analysis of two types of gelatin
    microcarrier beads
  • Evidence based guidelines – how to channel
    relevant knowledge into the hands of nurses
    and carers
  • Lack of due diligence in the prophylaxis of
    pressure ulcers? 
  • Six prevalence studies for pressure ulcers
    Snapshots from Danish Hospitals 
  • The Ransart Boot – An offloading device for
    every type of Diabetic Foot Ulcer?

January 2010

Scientific articles

  • Systamatic review of Repositioning for the
  • Treatment of Pressure Ulcers
  • Analysis of wound care in nursing care
  • homes as part of a district-wide wound care audit
  • Chronic leg ulcers among the Icelandic
  • population
  • Cross-sectional Survey of the Occurrence
  • of Cronic Wounds within Capital Region in Finland

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October 2009

Scientific articles

  • Alcohol-based hand-rub versus traditional
    surgical scrub and the risk of surgical site
    infection
  • Woundswest: Identifying the prevalence of
    wounds within western Australia’s public
    health system
  • An exploration of current practice in
    nursing documentation of pressure ulcer
    prevention and management
  • Dressings and Topical Agents for Treating
    Donor Sites of Split-Skin Grafts
  • The resource impact of wounds
    on health-care providers in Europe
  • Pressure ulcer audit highlights important
    gaps in the delivery of preventative care in
    England and Wales 2005-2008
  • Is the EWMA Position Document on
    Diagnosing Infection being implemented?
    Results of a district-wide audit

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May 2009

Scientific articles

  • A simple guide to randomised control trials in wound care
  • New HydroBalance concept tested in the primary health sector - an impartial study
  • Synthesizing data from qualitative research
  • A methodology for evaluating wound care technologies in the context of treatment and care
  • Registering Ulcer Treatment through a national quality register: RUT - a winning concept for both patients and the health care sector
  • Opinion Paper: Does wound care require an alternative to the randomised trial to evaluate product effectiveness

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January 2009

Scientific articles

  • Wound related pain: evaluating the impact of education on nursing practice
  • Safety and efficacy of a dermal substitute in the coverage of cancellous bone after surgical debridement for severe diabetic foot ulceration
  • Does surgery heal venous ulcers?
  • The CEAP classification and its evolution
  • The role of incompetent perforators
  • Hemodynamic patterns of vanous reflux in patients with leg ulcers
  • Combined superficial and deep vein reflux in vanous ulcers: operative strategy

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October 2008

Scientific articles

  • Eucomed - Advanced Wound Care Sector (AWCS). Positioning of advanced wound care
  • A Laboratory Survey of the Antimicrobial Properties of Honey-Containing Dressings
  • Topical negative pressure versus conventional treatment of deep sternal wound infection in cardiac surgery
  • Quality of Life in the Patients with Chronic Leg Ulcers - a Preliminary Report
  • Compression therapy for venous leg ulcers - how to get more value for money 

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May 2008

Scientific Articles

  • Treatment of chronic wounds with autologous platelet-rich plasma
  • Polyhexanide (PHMB) and Betaine in wound care management
  • Patients’ experience of wound- related pain: An international perspective
  • Efficacy of honey as a desloughing agent: overview of current evidence

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January 2008

Scientific Articles

  • Problem drug injecting: Wound care, harm reduction and social impact
  • Larval therapy in the treatment of diabetic foot wounds – A review of the literature
  • Opinion piece: Wound healing in hot climates

    Background Articles
  • Developing research capacity and capability in skin breakdown

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October 2007

Scientific Articles

  • Vacuum assisted closure for chronic wounds: a review of the evidence
  • General practitioner support to care homes: collaboration with a tissue viability nurse specialist and prescribing support pharmacist
  • Integrated system of chronic wound care healing – creating, managing and cost reduction
  • Guidelines for the management of partial-thickness burns in general hospital-recommendation of a European working party
  • Diabetic foot ulcer – from fiction to management: The development of global guidelines

    Background Articles

    • Wound Healing in Medieval England

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    May 2007

    Scientific Articles

    • Is it safe to use saline solution to clean wounds?
    • The cost of pressure ulceration
    • Epidemiology of wounds treated in Community Services in Portugal
    • Improving wound assessment through the provision of digital cameras across a Primary Care Trust

    Background Articles

    • The use of telemedicine in wound care
    • Lord Joseph Lister: the rise of antiseptic surgery and the modern place of antiseptics in wound care

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    January 2007

    Scientific Articles

    • Self-care activities of venous leg ulcer patients in Finland
    • Smoking is not contra-indicated in maggot debridement therapy in the chronic wound
    • Effectiveness of non-alcohol film forming skin protector on the skins isles inside the ulcers and the healing rate of venous leg ulcers
    • Wound measurement: the contribution to practice
    • Improving education in wound care: crossing the boundaries of interprofessional learning
    • Waterjet debridement of deep and indeterminate depth thermal injuries

    Background Articles

    • EWMA Education Development Project: what is it and what does it do?

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    Fall 2006

    Scientific Articles

    • The number of leg ulcers increases– a 20-year-questionnaire study in
      Pirkanmaa Health Care in Finland
    • An ex-vivo model to evaluate dressings and drugs for wound healing
    • Compression therapy on venous ulcers
    • Seasonal variation of onset of venous leg ulcers
    • Determinants and estimation of wound healing achievement after minor amputation in patients with diabetic foot

    Background Articles

    • Leg ulcer prevalence in the Czech Republic: Omnibus survey result 2006

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