Wound Care and Wound Healing: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
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Keywords

Wound Care
Wound Healing
Person Centered Care
Wound Bed Preparation
Clinical Reasoning

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Wound Care and Wound Healing: Two Sides of the Same Coin? (2026). International Journal of Wound Research, 2(3), 173-177. https://doi.org/10.64115/ijwr-2026-817

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