Clinical and financial advantages of moist wound management

Home Healthc Nurse. 2004 Sep;22(9):586-90. doi: 10.1097/00004045-200409000-00003.

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.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Acute Disease
  • Chronic Disease
  • Community Health Nursing / economics
  • Community Health Nursing / standards*
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis
  • Female
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Home Care Services / economics
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Occlusive Dressings / economics*
  • Occlusive Dressings / standards*
  • Wound Healing / physiology*
  • Wounds and Injuries / nursing*