Comment on: Margolis et al. Lack of Effectiveness of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for the Treatment of Diabetic Foot Ulcer and the Prevention of Amputation: A Cohort Study. Diabetes Care 2013;36:1961–1966 | Zendy

Glen C. Hawkins | Zendy

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Comment on: Margolis et al. Lack of Effectiveness of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for the Treatment of Diabetic Foot Ulcer and the Prevention of Amputation: A Cohort Study. Diabetes Care 2013;36:1961–1966

Author(s) -

Glen C. Hawkins

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

diabetes care

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 6.636

H-Index - 363

eISSN - 1935-5548

pISSN - 0149-5992

DOI - 10.2337/dc13-0589

Subject(s) - medicine , amputation , diabetic foot , hyperbaric oxygen , diabetic foot ulcer , reimbursement , diabetes mellitus , surprise , intensive care medicine , retrospective cohort study , physical therapy , randomized controlled trial , surgery , health care , endocrinology , psychology , social psychology , economic growth , economics

The article by Margolis et al. (1) took me by surprise because multiple randomized controlled trials as well as personal experience have shown that hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is very beneficial in the treatment of diabetic foot ulcers. After reading the article fully, I am of the belief that the authors have made a fundamental error of interpretation of their statistics, and the title is certainly not justified by their results.Firstly, the study is retrospective data from an organization that treats patients for profit. That has implications in that reimbursement for the use of HBOT in chronic wounds is related to the duration of …

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