PubMed · 8484176
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J L Brown. 1993. Gridlock? Try new paradigm.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8484176/
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OBJECTIVE: To compare the outcome and cost of care for leg ulcers in community leg ulcer clinics in Stockport District Health authority with Trafford District Health Authority as a control. DESIGN: Detailed cost and efficacy studies conducted prospectively over a three month period in both districts both before and one year after the introduction of five leg ulcer clinics in Stockport. SETTING: Two large district health authorities of broad socioeconomic mix and total population of 540,000. PATIENTS: All patients receiving treatment for an active leg ulcer, irrespective of the profession or location of their carer. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The proportion of ulcerated limbs completely healed within three months and total cost of leg ulcer care. RESULTS: The introduction of community clinics in Stockport improved healing of leg ulcers from 66/252 (26%) in 1993 to 99/233 (42%) in 1994 (P < 0.001) compared with in Trafford, where 47/203 (23%) healed in 1993 and only 43/213 (20%) in 1994. This improved result in Stockport was achieved while the annual expenditure on care of leg ulcers was reduced from 409,991 pounds to only 253,371 pounds. In the same year the cost of leg ulcer care in Trafford increased from 556,039 pounds to 673,318 pounds. CONCLUSION: In the first year after the introduction of community clinics, before most patients in Stockport had access to these clinics, healing of leg ulcers was already improved whereas costs were reduced.
OBJECTIVE: To improve the understanding of attendance pressure, its evolution over time and its relationship with the indicators of demand, use and age of the resources. DESIGN: Descriptive and retrospective. SETTING: Primary care centres with an appointment system in the Community of Valencia. There were 6,756 valid registers of the monthly attendance pressure (1989-1993) available. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Attendance pressure has an extremely dispersed distribution. Behaviour which is constant in its evolution over time does exist, which allows a characteristic curve, repeated every year, to be defined: descent in August, two peaks in October and January and a third "mobile" peak around March and April. Mathematical equality between attendance pressure and the product of three factors has been obtained: duration of use per procedure x intensity of repeated use per procedure x ratio equivalent day. The analysis of the monthly evolution of each one of these three "components" helps understand changes in pressure. These "components" are also modified by the type and age of centre. CONCLUSIONS: The wide dispersion of the results of technical productivity (attendance pressure), and the evidence of its change in composition over time and according to the care model offer important scope for management. It also creates the need for an explanatory model which includes the variables which determine both the attendance pressure and a method for altering it.