Development of a resource-use measure to capture costs of diabetic foot ulcers to the United Kingdom National Health Service, patients and society.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) add a significant burden to the lives of people with diabetes in the United Kingdom. They can have a considerable impact on a patient's daily life, with treatment requiring frequent changes of dressings and clinic attendances. Nurses and other allied health professionals (AHPs) within the community provide most wound care representing the primary cost driver.

Aims

To collaboratively explore key resource use related to the management of DFUs to develop, and pilot, a participant-reported measure to inform economic evaluations.

Methods

A literature search and semi-structured interviews determined health and non-health resource use in management of DFUs. A consensus view of the selected items was established in a modified Delphi stud

SUBMITTER: Cullen K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10756167 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature