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Margaret B. Harrison, Ian D. Graham, Karen Lorimer, Elaine Friedberg, Tadeusz Pierscianowski and Tim Brandys

From the School of Nursing, Queen's University, Kingston, Ont. (Harrison, Friedberg); the School of Nursing (Graham), the Department of Medicine (Pierscianowski) and the Department of Surgery (Brandys), University of Ottawa; the Ottawa Health Research Institute, Clinical Epidemiology Program (Harrison, Friedberg, Graham); and the Victorian Order of Nurses (Lorimer), Ottawa, Ont.



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  		Fig. 1. Flowchart indicating structure and time frame of study. RPNs = registered practical nurses.

 

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  		Fig. 2: Proportion of patients whose ulcers were healed within 3 months after admission, before and after implementation of the new service. Data were grouped quarterly, that is, by 3-month intervals within each 1-year study period.