Troyer-Caudle J, Harris A H
Veterans' Administration Medical Center, Kansas City, MO 64128, USA.
Home Care Provid. 1996 May-Jun;1(3):119-28; quiz 128-30. doi: 10.1016/s1084-628x(96)90019-2.
More than a quarter of the adult population in the United States is afflicted with lower extremity venous insufficiency, and 1 in 100 have had, or now have, stasis ulcers. Most of these patients will be treated on an outpatient basis, with many of them requiring home health care. The cost to treat venous ulcers alone has been estimated at $750 million to $1 billion a year. Understanding the pathogenesis and treatment of the problem is imperative as home health care nurses move into an era of cost containment and demographic shift toward an increasingly larger elderly population.
在美国，超过四分之一的成年人口患有下肢静脉功能不全，每100人中就有1人曾患或正在患淤积性溃疡。这些患者中的大多数将在门诊接受治疗，其中许多人需要家庭医疗护理。仅治疗静脉溃疡的费用估计每年就在7.5亿美元至10亿美元之间。随着家庭医疗护理护士进入成本控制时代，以及人口结构向老年人口日益增多的方向转变，了解该问题的发病机制和治疗方法势在必行。
