Table 4

Annual amount of NHS resource use attributable to managing 2.2 million patients with a wound and 2.2 million matched controls

	Annual number			p Value
Resource	Cases	Controls	Difference	p Value
GP visits	10 816 655	3 124 120	7 692 535	<0.001
Practice nurse visits	19 744 618	1 184 322	18 560 296	<0.001
Community nurse visits	10 932 199	75 548	10 856 651	<0.001
Specialist nurse visits	51 106	4444	46 662	<0.001
Allied healthcare visits	537 722	77 770	459 952	<0.001
Hospital outpatient visits	4 277 334	828 803	3 448 531	<0.001
Hospital admissions and day cases	1 142 104	173 315	968 788	<0.001
Ambulance services	11 110	2222	8888	ns
Accident and emergency attendances	11 110	11 110	–	ns
Diagnostic tests	60 284 855	24 068 613	36 216 242	<0.001
Devices	320 938 916	48 206 108	272 732 808	<0.001
Wound care products	354 954 275	0	354 954 275	<0.001
Prescriptions for individual drugs	135 859 234	38 769 310	97 089 924	<0.001