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Jane McManus is Deputy Ward Manager, Rugby Ward, St Christopher s Hospice, London. Email: goals of palliative wound care include reducing pain, odour, exudate, bleeding and infection (McDonald and Lesage, 2006). Some authors have raised concerns with regard to the use of the term palliative wound care as patients might be labelled palliative if their wounds are too difficult or costly to heal, allowing palliative to excuse poor outcomes (Ennis and Meneses, 2005). It is important that patient comfort takes priority over preventing skin breakdown and care of the wound in palliative care (Langemo, 2006).
Jane McManus is Deputy Ward Manager, Rugby Ward, St Christopher’s Hospice, London. Email: j.mcmanus@stchristophers.org.uk The goals of palliative wound care include reducing pain, odour,
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