Department
Health Promotion
Document Type
Article
Publication Source
Medicine (United States)
Publication Date
2015-01-01
Volume
94
Issue
49
Article Number
e2202
Abstract
© 2015 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved. Management of chronic wounds remains unsatisfactory in terms of treatment cost and time required for complete wound closure (CWC). This study aimed to calculate the healing rates, estimated cost, and time required for CWC in wounds; compare estimated wound care costs between healing and nonhealing wounds; and compare cost effectiveness between venous leg ulcer (VLU) and non-VLU. This was a retrospective cohort study performed at a physical therapy (PT) wound care clinic. Deidentified patient data in the electronicmedical database from September 10, 2012 to January 23, 2015 were extracted. Among 159 included patients with wounds, 119 (74.84%) patients were healed with CWC. The included patients were treated for 109.70±95.70 days, 29.71±25.66 visits, and at the costs per treatment episode of $1629.65±1378.82 per reimbursement rate and $2711.42±2356.81 per breakeven rate. For patients with CWC (healing group), the treatment duration was 98.01±76.12 days with the time for CWC as 72.45±64.21 days; the cost per treatment episode was $1327.24±1143.53 for reimbursement rate and $2492.58±2106.88 for breakeven cost. For patients with nonhealing wounds, treatment duration was found to be longer with costs significantly higher (P
DOI
10.1097/MD.0000000000002202
Recommended Citation
Zhou, Kehua; Krug, Kenneth; and Brogan, Michael S., "Physical therapy in wound care a cost-effectiveness analysis" (2015). Articles & Book Chapters. 244.
https://digitalcommons.daemen.edu/faculty_scholar/244
https://doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000002202
Comments
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