title: Leg ulcer care: an audit of cost-effectiveness.
abstract: Our objective was to establish an audit mechanism to determine the cost and effectiveness of leg ulcer care across two Health Authorities. Following identification of all patients with active ulcers over a two-month period, leg ulcer treatment, costs and outcome were prospectively audited over three months. We found that leg ulcer care is currently expensive and appears to be largely ineffective, especially when compared to the community clinic approach.
authors.affiliation: University Hospital of South Manchester, West Didsbury, UK.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Freak
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Simon
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kinsella
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: McCollum
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Walsh
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lane
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006801:Humans; D007871:Leg Ulcer / Q000191:economics / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy*; D008485:Medical Audit / Q000191:economics*; D013222:State Medicine / Q000191:economics; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D006113:United Kingdom / Q000453:epidemiology