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“Wounds Home Alone”—Why and How Venous Leg Ulcer Patients Self-Treat Their Ulcer: A Qualitative Content Study

Background: Venous leg ulcers (VLUs), the most common type of leg ulcerations, have long healing times and high recurrence rates; reimbursement rules and a general shortage of nursing staff have put self-treatment into focus. The study aimed to investigate why and how patients with VLUs self-treat t...

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Autores principales: Žulec, Mirna, Rotar-Pavlič, Danica, Puharić, Zrinka, Žulec, Ana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6406886/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30769943
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16040559