title: [Comparison of cost between two ways of skin grafting in the treatment of patients with extensive deep burn].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the economic significance of Meek skin grafting and automicrografting combined with large piece of allogenous skin (micrografting in brief) in the treatment of patients with extensive deep burn.
  
  
  METHODS
  Twenty-four patients with extensive deep burn admitted to the First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical College were divided into Meek skin grafting group and micrografting group, with 12 patients in each group. Statistical comparison between Meek skin grafting group and micrografting group in respect of wound healing time, consumption of each special dressing, total cost of hospitalization, rehabilitation cost during convalescence was made. Then the cost and effect value was compared between two groups.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The wound healing time, consumption of each special dressing, total cost of hospitalization and rehabilitation cost in Meek skin grafting group was (14.4 +/- 1.9) d, yen(16 590 +/- 521), yen(421 628 +/- 145), yen(39 571 +/- 225), respectively, and that in micrografting group was (25.6 +/- 4.2) d, yen (136 441 +/- 356), yen(539 526 +/- 686), yen(55 853 +/- 794), respectively. The difference between two groups were statistically significant (P < 0.01).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In a definite range of burn size, Meek skin grafting has a lower therapeutic cost and better therapeutic effects as compared with micrografting.
authors: Department of Burns, First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou 325000, China.
authors: Cai
authors: C
authors: LIN
authors: Geng-xin
authors: GX
authors: CHEN
authors: Peng
authors: P
authors: ZHANG
authors: Cai-jiao
authors: CJ
authors: LU
authors: Jian-jun
authors: JJ
authors: XU
authors: Xu
authors: X
authors: LUO
authors: Zheng-jun
authors: ZJ
authors: LIU
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002056:Burns / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016038:Skin Transplantation / Q000191:economics* / Q000379:methods*; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D055815:Young Adult