Chronic wound care guidelines issued.

摘要

Treating these wounds costs an estimated dollar5 billion to dollar10 billion each year, according to Adrian Barbul, MD, president of the Wound Healing Society, a professional organization for basic and clinical scientists (http://www .woundheal.org/). Despite the clinical and economic impact of chronic wounds, however, there has been little consensus on the best ways to diagnose and treat them. To close this gap, the society has developed a set of guidelines for the care of chronic wounds