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Recurrent Admissions for Diabetic Foot Complications

Author(s) -

C-L Ang,

Lim Yj

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

malaysian orthopaedic journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.271

H-Index - 6

eISSN - 2232-111X

pISSN - 1985-2533

DOI - 10.5704/moj.1307.010

Subject(s) - medicine , amputation , diabetic foot , foot (prosody) , debridement (dental) , diabetes mellitus , surgery , abscess , diabetic foot ulcer , linguistics , philosophy , endocrinology

Diabetic foot complications are a significant source of morbidity and mortality. Patients who undergo recurrent admissions for the same diabetic foot problems represent a difficult subgroup to treat. From July 2007 to June 2008, there were 38 such patients who were admitted recurrently. Eighteen patients (47%) were re-admitted because of previous refusal of surgical treatment. Eighteen patients (47%) received treatment as necessary but were still readmitted for recurrent infection at the same wound site. Assessment of patients' compliance to outpatient treatment was found to be generally lacking. As a significant proportion were re-admitted because of previous refusal of surgery, a trained counselor may be suitable in counselling patients for debridement or amputation surgery.

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