{"id":2162,"date":"2017-10-09T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T08:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/?p=2162\/"},"modified":"2017-09-26T09:21:27","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T07:21:27","slug":"economic-impact-of-pressure-ulcers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/economic-impact-of-pressure-ulcers\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic impact of pressure ulcers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pressure ulcers are an important health problem with a great epidemiological impact that affects the health status and quality of life producing important expenses for people,\u00a0 healthcare institutions and health systems.<\/p>\n<p>There is not available systematized information about the different cost components of pressure ulcers although the important economic dimension of such problem. In order to cover this lack of systematized information an integrative review about the economic dimension of pressure lesions was performed. It identified and analyzed 89 documents with economic information about pressure lesions problem.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2165 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/bad58-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/bad58-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/bad58.jpg 621w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Information was systematized according within these categories: time for healing, cost of additional hospital stays, costs related with safety of patients, DRG costs, total cost of treatment, episode\u2019s cost, by type of treatment, related with complications, QALYs, costs in spinal cord patients and in patients with other conditions and global prevention costs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more information consult the reference:\u00a0Torra-Bou JE, Garc\u00eda-Fern\u00e1ndez FP, P\u00e9rez-Acevedo G, Sarabia-Lavin R, Paras-Bravo P, Soldevilla-\u00c1greda JJ, et al. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gerokomos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/28-2-2017-083.pdf\">Economic impact of pressure ulcers: an integrative review.<\/a> Gerokomos. 2017;28(2):83-97.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 220px; left: 584px;\">Guardar<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pressure ulcers are an important health problem with a great epidemiological impact that affects the health status and quality of life producing important expenses for people,\u00a0 healthcare institutions and health systems. There is not available &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Economic impact of pressure ulcers\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/economic-impact-of-pressure-ulcers\/#more-2162\" aria-label=\"Read more about Economic impact of pressure ulcers\">Leer m\u00e1s &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,60,2],"tags":[137,138,219],"class_list":["post-2162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articulo-cientifico","category-heridas-en","category-news","tag-heridas","tag-heridas-en","tag-revision-integrativa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}