Foot-related diabetes complications: care pathways, patient profiles and costs.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Foot-related diabetes complications reduce individual well-being, increase mortality and results in increased healthcare costs. Despite their notable stress on health services, studies examining the foot complication care pathways, especially from the viewpoint of health services, are limited. We aimed to identify the most typical care pathways following an initial foot-related diabetes complication, to characterize the patients on each pathway and calculate the related healthcare costs.

Methods

The identification of pathways was based on population-wide register-based data including all persons diagnosed with diabetes in Finland from 1964 to 2017. For each patient, initial foot-related complication from 2011-2016 was identified using the ICD-10 codes and related

SUBMITTER: Kurkela O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9040351 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature