Experience of nail bed injuries at a tertiary hand trauma unit: a 12-month review and cost analysis
| Autor: | Colin T Brewster, Barbara Jemec, Lara Yildirimer, Zeynep Unluer, Hina Aziz, Anna De Leo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Injury control Adolescent Office Visits Poison control Occupational safety and health Tertiary Care Centers 03 medical and health sciences Fractures Bone Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Age Distribution Injury prevention Finger Injuries Retrospective analysis Medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Child Aged Retrospective Studies Aged 80 and over business.industry General surgery Infant Newborn Infant 030208 emergency & critical care medicine Middle Aged United Kingdom Cost savings medicine.anatomical_structure Nails Child Preschool Cost analysis Nail (anatomy) Costs and Cost Analysis Surgery Female business |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of hand surgery, European volume. 44(4) |
| ISSN: | 2043-6289 |
| Popis: | The aim of this study was to analyse the management of nail bed injuries from a clinical and economic perspective. We carried out a retrospective analysis of nail bed injuries treated operatively at a tertiary Plastic Surgery Hand Trauma Unit during 2016. The National Schedule of Reference Costs (2015–2016) was used to estimate the costs of treating 630 patients. The most common mechanism was a crush injury in a door (33%). Fifty-five per cent of patients had an associated tuft fracture. The minimum cost per annum for patients treated for nail bed injuries in our unit was calculated to be £511,560 (€573,362; US$666,664). Many nail bed injuries are preventable and because they present a very high financial burden on the National Health Service, targeted prevention strategies should be considered. Level of evidence: IV |
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