1. Incidence and risk factors for developing infection in patients presenting with uninfected diabetic foot ulcers.
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Limin Jia, Christina N Parker, Tony J Parker, Ewan M Kinnear, Patrick H Derhy, Ann M Alvarado, Flavia Huygens, Peter A Lazzarini, and Diabetic Foot Working Group, Queensland Statewide Diabetes Clinical Network (Australia)
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Medicine ,Science - Abstract
There is a paucity of research on patients presenting with uninfected diabetic foot ulcers (DFU) that go on to develop infection. We aimed to investigate the incidence and risk factors for developing infection in a large regional cohort of patients presenting with uninfected DFUs.We performed a secondary analysis of data collected from a validated prospective state-wide clinical diabetic foot database in Queensland (Australia). Patients presenting for their first visit with an uninfected DFU to a Diabetic Foot Service in one of thirteen Queensland regions between January 2012 and December 2013 were included. Socio-demographic, medical history, foot disease history, DFU characteristics and treatment variables were captured at the first visit. Patients were followed until their DFU healed, or if their DFU did not heal for 12-months, to determine if they developed a foot infection in that period.Overall, 853 patients were included; mean(standard deviation) age 62.9(12.8) years, 68.0% male, 90.9% type 2 diabetes, 13.6% indigenous Australians. Foot infection developed in 342 patients for an overall incidence of 40.1%; 32.4% incidence in DFUs healed
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- 2017
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