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Modern Dressing Improves Diabetic Wound Process

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Diabetes mellitus is a carbohydrate metabolism disturbance with many long term complications. One of its complications is diabetic wound risk to amputation. Wound care nursing intervention aimed to preventthe risk of amputation. Aeffective evaluation is needed to identify the most benefecial wound care . A cost effective evaluation is needed to identify the most benefecial wound care. A quasi-experiment compling modern and conventional with pretest and post test with control group design was conducted with 16 selected patients. The outcome measure is wound healing process score based on Betes-Jansen wound assessment while the cost measured is wound care material cost. An independent t-test with 95% confidence interval was performed to evaluate the difference of healing process and cost effectivity between modern and conventional dressing. The result showed a significant differences of healng process score (p+0,0002) and cost effectivity (p=0,031) between modern and conventional dressing application for diabetic wound. It can be concluded that the application of modern dressing significantly improve the healing process in diabetic wound but with higher treatment cost.

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Jurnal Kedokteran Brawijaya:25(1): 32-35

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Malang : Fakultas Kedokteran Universitas Brawijaya., 2009

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4p.

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0216-9347

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diabetes mellitus
wound healing

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