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Patients' experiences of healing a venous ulcer were described as “forever healing” which affected their activities and treatment

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebn.1.3.95

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    Chase SK, Melloni M, Savage A.A forever healing: the lived experience of venous ulcer disease.J Vasc Nurs1997 Jun;15:73–8.OpenUrlCrossRefPubMed

    Question How do patients experience life with a venous leg ulcer (a leg ulcer caused by chronic venous insufficiency)?

    Design

    Phenomenology.

    Setting

    An ambulatory surgical clinic in an urban teaching hospital.

    Patients

    37 of 54 patients, whose venous ulcer dressings were changed weekly by clinic nurses, agreed to participate in the study. Patients were usually treated using an Unna's boot.

    Methods

    Data were collected for 1 year and included weekly measurements of wound size using acetate tracings; activity and pain logs kept by 12 patients; medical chart reviews for concomitant conditions, previous ulcers, and related emergency department and hospital admissions; and weekly participant observation sessions with patients to follow the course of healing over time. 7 patients were interviewed using open ended questions about their experience of venous ulcers. Interviews and …

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    • Source of funding: Office of Research Administration, Boston College.

    • For article reprint: Dr S K Chase, School of Nursing, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02167–3812, USA. Fax +1 617 552 0745.