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Moving wound care up the political agenda

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Moving wound care up the political agenda

Dai Havard

1 November 2005

The overarching focus on wound healing is unhelpful to those in need of palliative wound care, and those who care for them. The theoretical underpinnings of wound care currently, together with this emphasis on healing as the prevalent end point in clinicial trials, does not serve the needs of the palliative wound care group.

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