A Comparison of the Efficacy and Cost of Different Venous Leg Ulcer Dressings: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Table 1

Results for simple nonadherent Ultra dressings. The mean healing rate was 0.353 cm²/week with a standard deviation of 0.3185 and the mean cost of dressings was 0.702 GBP with a standard deviation of 1.08. The standard error was 0.092.

Age	Gender	Initial ulcer area [cm^2]	Final ulcer area [cm^2]	Change in ulcer area [cm^2]	Duration of change in area [weeks]	Rate of healing [cm^2/week]	Dressing type	Cost of dressing per patient [GBP]
66	F	6	0	6	26	0.23	Ultra	1.21
79	M	2	0	2	8	0.25	Ultra	0.12
69	M	1.4	0	1.4	17	0.08	Ultra	0.19
80	M	28.8	7.9	20.9	17	1.23	Ultra	3.82
82	F	3.6	0.3	3.3	17	0.19	Ultra	0.48
81	F	7.6	3.2	4.4	23	0.19	Ultra	1.36
50	F	1.2	0	1.2	2	0.6	Ultra	0.02
70	F	3.2	0	3.2	8	0.4	Ultra	0.20
64	M	3.2	0	3.2	12	0.27	Ultra	0.30
53	M	6.46	2.3	4.16	13	0.32	Ultra	0.66
82	F	0.15	0	0.15	8	0.02	Ultra	0.009
48	M	2.0	0.2	1.8	4	0.46	Ultra	0.06