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30 May 2022

Best Practice Statement Addressing skin tone bias in wound care: assessing signs and symptoms in people with dark skin tones

This document aims to highlight this issue and provide clinicians with practical guidance to aid accurate assessment and diagnosis in all skin tones, optimising patient care and improving outcomes – Luxmi Dhoonmoon and Jacqui Fletcher (Expert Panel Co-chairs)

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30 May 2022

Skin Assessment: Assessing skin on patients with darker skin tones in relation to PU prevention

A part of the Society of Tissue Viability’s STOP the pressure webinar series 2021.  Presented by Jacqui Fletcher and based on the Best Practice Statement – Addressing skin tone bias in wound care: assessing signs and symptoms in people with dark skin tones, published by Wounds UK.

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