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Australian Wound Management Association. This is the site of the Australian national body and has links to Australian state wound groups.

Australian Association of Stomal Therapy Nurses Official site of the Association

European Wound Management Association EWMA has released several worthwhile position documents.

Joanna Briggs Institute for Evidence Based Nursing Another Evidence Based site but worth a check for their practice information sheets of which several are on wound management topics.

Journal of Wound Care The Journal of Wound Care has launched its online website this year.

National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel Not a big site but top shelf information. In particular they have the PUSH tool for download. This is a tool is the Pressure Ulcer Scale for Healing and as the name suggests provides a system of keeping tabs on healing pressure ulcers. Cutting edge stuff, for pressure ulcer buffs anyway

South Australian Society for Vascular Nursing The official website for the society

World Union of Wound Healing Societies The WUWHS has a few consensus documents related to wound management. In particular their document on pain during wound related procedures is worth a look.

World Wide Wounds This is an extensive online journal with Q & A page and an excellent links page, a quality wound site

Wound Care Information Network A discussion forum site with a focus to pressure ulcers and vascular wounds. Answers to your questions can be found here

Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society The WOCN Society is a professional nursing society which supports its members by promoting educational, clinical and research opportunities to advance the practice and guide the delivery of expert health care to individuals with wounds, ostomies and incontinence.

York CRD: The National Health Service Centre for Reviews & Dissemination - University of York. This site is not wound specific but does contain a number of items of interest to woundies in their data bases