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Research type: |
Primary Research (e.g. trial) |
Title (lead author) etc: |
VenUS III: a randomised controlled trial of therapeutic ultrasound in the management of venous leg ulcers (Watson) 176 pages, Volume 15, number 13 |
DOI |
10.3310/hta15130 |
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Headline: |
Study found no additional clinical benefit from low dose ultrasound weekly for hard-to-heal venous leg ulcers, though costs were greater and adverse events more frequent |
This report should be referenced as follows: |
Watson J, Kang'ombe A, Soares M, Chuang L, Worthy G, et al. VenUS III: a randomised controlled trial of therapeutic ultrasound in the management of venous leg ulcers. Health Technol Assess 2011;15(13). |
Project ref: |
02/37/03 |
Original project title: |
VenUS III - Venous Ulcer Studies III: ultrasound for venous leg ulcers |
Chief Investigator: |
Professor Andrea Nelson, Professor of Wound Healing, Director of Research, School of Healthcare, University of Leeds |
Start Date: |
May 2005 |
Date of publication in HTA journal series |
March 2011 |
Cost: |
£1,044,618 |
MeSH* index primary terms: |
VARICOSE-ULCER Q-ultrasonography; LEG-ULCER Q-ultrasonography (* = Medical Subject Headings) |
MeSH* index secondary terms: |
HUMANS; MULTICENTER-STUDY; RANDOMIZED-CONTROLLED-TRIAL; CLINICAL-TRIAL (* = Medical Subject Headings) |
ISRCTN* number: | ISRCTN 21175670 (*International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial Number) URL of this project on the Controlled Trials Website: http://www.controlled-trials.com/ISRCTN21175670 |
NRR* number, if applicable: |
N0484162339 (*National Research Register) The National Research Register was a public database of ongoing and recently completed research projects funded by, or of interest to, the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS). It is now an archive of projects from early 2000 to September 2007. Search the NRR archive. |
Project Protocol: |
Project protocol (pdf format, 253 kbytes) |
Printed copies of this title despatched: |
97 (Figures relate to the previous calendar month) |
URL of this page: |
http://www.hta.ac.uk/1451 |
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