Table 7.
Cost of healthcare resource use associated with managing unhealed surgical wounds stratified by planned/emergency procedures and healing in clinical practice (percentage of total cost is in parenthesis)
| Resource | Mean cost of resource use per patient over 12 months from initial presentation in the community | |||||||
| Planned/healed procedures (%) | Planned/unhealed procedures (%) | Emergency/healed procedures (%) | Emergency/unhealed procedures (%) | |||||
| District nurse visits | £3457.82 | (58) | £8328.58 | (59) | £3104.09 | (52) | £7651.79 | (59) |
| Hospital admissions | £921.22 | (15) | £1284.56 | (9) | £1314.78 | (22) | £1536.34 | (12) |
| Dressings | £627.04 | (10) | £1661.62 | (12) | £558.83 | (9) | £1256.28 | (10) |
| Hospital outpatient visits | £293.21 | (5) | £526.69 | (4) | £331.36 | (6) | £611.42 | (5) |
| Practice nurse visits | £191.80 | (3) | £693.48 | (5) | £164.96 | (3) | £415.48 | (3) |
| GP visits | £182.28 | (3) | £500.49 | (4) | £161.89 | (3) | £307.56 | (2) |
| Bandages | £117.25 | (2) | £721.50 | (5) | £86.36 | (1) | £693.92 | (5) |
| Analgesics and non-steroidal anti-inflammatories | £106.13 | (2) | £192.77 | (1) | £91.42 | (2) | £195.32 | (2) |
| Wound care appliances | £57.95 | (1) | £181.74 | (1) | £77.48 | (1) | £179.46 | (1) |
| Anti-infectives | £37.73 | (1) | £78.83 | (1) | £33.78 | (1) | £69.90 | (1) |
| Topical treatments | £6.21 | (<1) | £49.89 | (<1) | £39.62 | (1) | £0.00 | (<1) |
| Negative pressure wound therapy | £5.92 | (<1) | £0.69 | (<1) | £1.89 | (<1) | £25.30 | (<1) |
| Laboratory tests | £1.89 | (<1) | £8.70 | (<1) | £1.78 | (<1) | £5.86 | (<1) |
| Tissue viability nurse visits | £0.28 | (<1) | £0.00 | (<1) | £0.37 | (<1) | £0.00 | (<1) |
| Total | £6006.73 | (100) | £14 229.54 | (100) | £5968.61 | (100) | £12 948.63 | (100) |
GP, general practitioner.