Microbiology culture results in high risk foot clinic patients: an audit
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Methods Three reviewers extracted all microbiology results for all patients who had a current foot progress chart and who had been attending the high risk foot unit at Liverpool Hospital from the period of 15 September 2009 to 15 September 2010. The results were collated and entered into an Excel spread sheet. Fields included wound location, microbes, colonisation, and antibiotic susceptibility.
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دوره 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011