Prognosis of the infected diabetic foot ulcer: a 12-month prospective observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To determine clinical outcomes and explore prognostic factors related to ulcer healing in people with a clinically infected diabetic foot ulcer.

Methods

This multicentre, prospective, observational study reviewed participants' data at 12 months after culture of a diabetic foot ulcer requiring antibiotic therapy. From participants' notes, we obtained information on the incidence of wound healing, ulcer recurrence, lower extremity amputation, lower extremity revascularization and death. We estimated the cumulative incidence of healing at 6 and 12 months, adjusted for lower extremity amputation and death using a competing risk analysis, and explored the relationship between baseline factors and healing incidence.

Results

In the first year after culture of the index

SUBMITTER: Ndosi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5765512 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature