Decreased Health Care Expenditure for Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Patients

Poster Number: GR-001

In this case study, the authors (Leila Boti, MS; Laura Soloway, PhD, MPH; Deb Myers, BBA; Dinu Pillai, BS; Javad Zabihi, MS) compared the average length of negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) use between patients discharged from acute care facilities that had instituted a facilitated-transition (FT) discharge program that allowed patients to receive on-site NPWT devices at or before hospital discharge vs patients in facilities without this program (non-FT). This poster abstract, “Decreased Health Care Expenditure and Average Length of Therapy with Facilitated Transition Discharge Program for Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Patients,” was presented at the Symposium on Advanced Wound Care (SAWC) Spring | Wound Healing Society meeting.

The authors pulled billable orders from January 2021 to September 2021; these were acquired through Oracle data sources and analyzed in 3-month rolling intervals.The hospitals with an FT discharge program were further segmented into active FT facilities vs inactive FT facilities. Billable orders were counted for NPWT systems among patients treated with NPWT within the last 3 months. Average length of therapy (LOT) was computed per the following formula: (sum of total therapy days) / (number of patients treated).

This study demonstrates the benefits of shorter inpatient stays and average LOT for patients hospitalized in facilities actively using the FT program.

–Cat Urbanski, Associate Digital Editor

Poster Reference

Boti L, Soloway L, Myers D, Pillai D, Zabihi J. Decreased Health Care Expenditure and Average Length of Therapy with Facilitated Transition Discharge Program for Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Patients. Poster presented at: Symposium on Advanced Wound Care Spring; April 6-10, 2022.