Charne Miller, GDip(SocStat), is a Research Officer, Royal District Nursing Service, Helen Macpherson Smith Institute of Community Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Leila Karimi, PhD, is a Lecturer, School of Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Lisa Donohue, PhD, is General Manager, and Suzanne Kapp, MNSci, is Clinical Nurse Consultant, Wound Management and Research, Royal District Nursing Service, Helen Macpherson Smith Institute of Community Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The authors have disclosed that they have no financial relationships related to this article.
Acknowledgments: The Project Team acknowledges the Gandel Charitable Trust for funding this investigation, the nurses who participated in this evaluation and kindly shared their time and experience, and the clients who consented to having an image of their wound taken. Home and community care services provided by Royal District Nursing Service are jointly funded by the Victorian and Australian Governments.
Submitted June 28, 2011; accepted August 17, 2011.
