In the US, the in the US have a PU.2,3 In Canada, the expenditures for treating PUs have been prevalence of PUs is estimated to be 30% in estimated at $11 billion per year.13 In the UK in long-term care (LTC) settings, 25% in acute care 1992, PUs cost the average health district settings, and 15% in community care settings.4 approximately £300,000 to £750,000 ($420,000 The overall prevalence for P [...] The purpose of this report is to advise the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care (MOHLTC) through the Medical Advisory Secretariat (MAS) on the cost-effectiveness of provincial implementation of PU prevention strategies, with several objectives: examine the economic attractiveness of evidence-based prevention strategies to reduce the burden of PUs in Ontario; and estimate the budget impac [...] Its linkage to the population-based Model structure Minimum Data Set (MDS) for LTC homes in Ontario23 and the Canadian Institute of Health The model (Figure 2.1) was structured to be Information Hospital Discharge Abstracts consistent with current biologic and clinical Database (CIHI-DAD), and the process of model understanding of the development and calibration are described. [...] The following outcome measures were used to assess the clinical impact of different modifications in the natural history of PU: (1) Underlying risk for pressure ulcer the prevalence of PU; (2) the lifetime probability of developing co-morbidities that placed Each week (i.e., one cycle), LTC residents could residents at high risk for PU; (3) the lifetime develop PU according to their time-dependent [...] The proportion of residents developing PU over a 3-month assessment was estimated by the ratio of two factors: 1) the number of residents developing a PU over a 3-month assessment THETA| 6BChapter 2: Natural history model of pressure ulcer 10 Other data from published literature 2. Age-specific incidence and healing estimates were scaled (e.g., 0.5 to 1.5) in order for the The mean healing time
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