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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Nov 7.
Published in final edited form as: J Adv Nurs. 2018 May 7:10.1111/jan.13699. doi: 10.1111/jan.13699

Table 4.

Aim 2 Variables

Variable Method of Measurement Operational Definition Level of Measurement
High Wound Bioburden Swab specimen processed using 16 S rRNA sequencing Microbial load (number of bacterial cells)

Microbial Diversity

Shannon

index

Faith’s index

Relative Abundance of

Staph Genre

Anaerobic

Genre		 Continuous

Continuous

Continuous

Continuous

Continuous

Continuous
High Inflammatory mediators Swab specimens processed to extract cDNA using qPCR Cycle threshold (Ct) values Continuous
Low Wound pH pH Paper (6.5-13.0 pH with 0.5 incremental readings) pH value Continuous