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The future of wound documentation: Three-dimensional, evidence-based, intuitive and thorough

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Wound management, which is based on wound diagnostic, will become more and more important and will develop even more towards evidence-based medicine. Evidence-based medicine is the current state of the art in clinical research. The data quality is very much dependent on the transparency of the treatment and its objective evaluation. An objectification requires comparable patients with comparable wounds as well as comparable documentation and quality of the documentation.

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Giretzlehner, M., Kamolz, LP., Dirnberger, J., Owen, R. (2012). The future of wound documentation: Three-dimensional, evidence-based, intuitive and thorough. In: Kamolz, LP., Jeschke, M.G., Horch, R.E., Küntscher, M., Brychta, P. (eds) Handbook of Burns. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-0315-9_7

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