Tag: diabetic foot ulcer

What is the best patient reported outcome measure (#PROM) for the Diabetic Foot #PROM #DFU

Great work from our Spanish and Maltese SALSAmigos. Diabetic foot disease: a systematic literature review of patient-reported outcome measures. Bottom line: Consider using the DFSQ-UMA and Q-DFD together. They only total 28 questions, so it shouldn’t be that onerous. Purpose Diabetic foot disease is one of the most serious and expensive complications of diabetes. Patient-reported […]

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A Meta-Analysis of the Outcomes of Resection Arthroplasty for Resistant Hallucal Diabetic Ulcers – PubMed

Great work from Yammine and Assi summarizing the state of play for this useful and still likely underutilized procedure for hallux ulcers. The standard medical care (SC) of non-infected diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) has been reported to yield varying rates of wound healing with high recurrence rate in non-infected wounds. Conservative surgery has been advanced […]

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