Cost of treating pressure ulcers for veterans with spinal cord injury

Kevin T. Stroupe; Larry Manheim; Charlesnika T. Evans; Marylou Guihan; Chester Ho; Keran Li; Diane Cowper-Ripley; Timothy P. Hogan; Justin R. St. Andre; Zhiping Huo; Bridget M. Smith

doi:10.1310/sci1604-62

Cost of treating pressure ulcers for veterans with spinal cord injury

Kevin T. Stroupe, Larry Manheim, Charlesnika T. Evans, Marylou Guihan, Chester Ho, Keran Li, Diane Cowper-Ripley, Timothy P. Hogan, Justin R. St. Andre, Zhiping Huo, Bridget M. Smith

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Abstract

Veterans comprise almost 17% of the 250,000 persons with spinal cord injury/disorder (SCI/D) in the United States. Pressure ulcers are common complications of SCI/D. We compared annual health care utilization and costs between veterans with and without pressure ulcers in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). Veterans with pressure ulcers had more total inpatient days on average (61.00 vs 9.19;P < .001) and higher total health care costs ($100,935 vs $27,914;P < .001) due primarily to higher inpatient costs ($91,341 vs $13,754;P < .05). Our results highlight the need to identify patients at risk for pressure ulcers who could benefit from targeted skin care management interventions.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	62-73
Number of pages	12
Journal	Topics in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation
Volume	16
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1310/sci1604-62
State	Published - Mar 1 2011
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

health care cost
hospitalization
pressure ulcer
spinal cord injury/disorder
veteran

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General Medicine

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