Open AccessBenchmarking healing times for diabetic foot ulcerations and investigating the influence of peripheral arterial disease and infection
Author(s) -
Milne Tamara E,
Schoen Deborah E,
Bower Virginia M,
Gurr Joel M
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of foot and ankle research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.763
H-Index - 39
ISSN - 1757-1146
DOI - 10.1186/1757-1146-4-s1-o31
Subject(s) - medicine , diabetic foot , diabetes mellitus , peripheral neuropathy , peripheral , arterial disease , diabetic foot ulcer , foot (prosody) , amputation , rehabilitation , vascular disease , surgery , physical therapy , linguistics , philosophy , endocrinology
Methods Data was collected prospectively between October 2004 and September 2008 for all patients with diabetes who presented with a DFU. All DFU that healed within the time frame of the study were included. Data was collected for the following variables: presentation date, healing date, gender, location, presence of peripheral neuropathy (PN), presence of PAD, presence of infection (STI or OM), and whether the DFU was reviewed on the Multidisciplinary Foot Ulcer Clinic (MDFUC).