Cost effectiveness of wound management in long-term care.
Today's healthcare environment -- and the economic environment in general -- necessitate efforts to lower healthcare costs, both for patients and for providers. This need is especially relevant to long-term care facilities, where residents' healthcare problems are a daily and expensive certainty. Both pressure ulcers and venous ulcers are common in long-term facilities, and the aging of our citizens means managing these facilities will be an increasingly significant concern for providers.
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D000368:Aged; D001458:Bandages / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006801:Humans; D008134:Long-Term Care / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D018579:Patient Selection; D017592:Skin Care / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D012883:Skin Ulcer / Q000191:economics / Q000451:nursing*; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000191:economics / Q000451:nursing*