The Importance of Efficient Wound Treatment
Diagnosing and treating wound infections quickly and efficiently is critical to long term patient outcomes and can:
Molecular-based testing with fast and accurate results is required for quality patient care and aiding wound infection treatment.
Total Medicare spending estimates for all wound types ranged from $28.1 to $96.8 billion.
(a) Nussbaum SR, Carter MJ, Fife CE, et al. An economic evaluation of the impact, cost, and Medicare policy implications of chronic non-healing wounds. Value Health 2018;21(1):27–32. [PubMed]
50% of diabetic foot infections who have foot amputations die within 5 years. Many patients needlessly undergo amputations because of improper diagnostic and therapeutic approaches.
(b) Weledji, E. P., & Fokam, P. (2014). Treatment of the diabetic foot - to amputate or not? BMC surgery, 14, 83. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2482-14-83.