Cost analysis of negative-pressure wound therapy versus standard treatment of acute conflict-related extremity wounds within a randomized controlled trial.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThis health economic analysis was part of a clinical trial which received ethical approval from the Ethics Review Committee of the Jordan Ministry of Health (MOH REC 150037), the Ethics Review Board of Médecins Sans Frontières (ID 1520), the Research Ethics Committee, Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq (2:10 6/3/2017), and the Swedish Ethical Review Authority (2019-01975). All participants provided written informed consent. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare that they have no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests."

"Funding Open access funding provided by Karolinska Institute. This work was supported by the Stockholm County Council (ALF 20160207), the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare (10.1-30118/2019), and Médecins Sans Frontières. No companies were involved in any part of the trial, nor did any companies contribute funding. The funders had no role in study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, or writing of the report."

"Trial registration NCT02444598."