Table 3.
Progress over the study in healing time within aetiologies
| Acute/surgical/trauma | All leg ulcers | All pressure ulcers | Pressure ulcer stage 2 | All skin tears | Chronic other than leg ulcers or pilonidal sinus | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | Heal time (days) | Significant (2 tailed) | n | Heal time (days) | Significant (2 tailed) | n | Heal time (days) | Significant (2 tailed) | n | Heal time (days) | Significant (2 tailed) | n | Heal time (days) | Significant (2 tailed) | n | Heal time (days) | Significant (2 tailed) | |
| All years | 1732 | 47·9 | 370 | 98·2 | 280 | 82·1 | 127 | 84·2 | 221 | 36·5 | 87 | 128·2 | ||||||
| Year 1 | 591 | 56·1 | .000 | 171 | 108·2 | .003 | 110 | 96·8 | .013 | 48 | 121·7 | .001 | 88 | 45·4 | .025 | 41 | 160·5 | .035 |
| Year 2 | 686 | 47·2 | 126 | 104·2 | 113 | 81·9 | 58 | 69·7 | 93 | 28·8 | 29 | 124·4 | ||||||
| Year 3 | 455 | 38·5 | 73 | 64·5 | 57 | 54·4 | 21 | 38·5 | 40 | 34·9 | 17 | 56·9 | ||||||