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CLARIFICATION

Published on Thu Sep 28, 2006

Please note: The article "Confusion Over Wounds Can Cost You Thousands" in Eli's Home Care Week, Vol. 15, No. 30, contains a statement with a typographic error.

The statement regarding surgical wound status should read, "A debrided ulcer is still a pressure ulcer, but if the ulcer is repaired with a muscle flap, the wound becomes a surgical wound."
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