Quick Reference to Wound Care: Palliative, Home, and Clinical Practices, Fourth Edition provides healthcare professionals with the essentials necessary to deliver the best wound care in a cost-effective manner. Updated to reflect current wound care treatments and products, it includes wound assessment, the healing process, the basics of wound management, topical treatments, and management of the major wound types.

* New chapter on palliative wound care
* New contributors discuss long-term care and federal changes in documentation and assessment for patients in long-term care facilitates
* Home care chapter outlines several significant Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) changes