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A survey to estimate the resource cost of wound care in one UK primary care trust published in this issue (see page 93) found that it amounted to 1.44% of the local health-care budget in 2006-2007. This is probably an underestimate as it only took into account the costs associated with dressing- change frequency, treatment times and district nurse travel time, and ignored other wound-related activities such as risk assessment and patient repositioning. Based on these parameters, the authors concluded that the demands of wound management required the equivalent of 45.4 full-time nurses.
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