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Validation of the Flemish-Dutch diabetic foot ulcer scale short form (DFS-SF) questionnaire for diabetic foot ulcers
ulcer care. This study aimed to validate the DFS- SF questionnaire for Flemish Dutch-speaking patients with DFU in Belgium. Methods: This observational cohort study included 100 patients with DFU from ...
Validation of the Flemish-Dutch Lower Extremity Functional Scale (LEFS) questionnaire for diabetic foot ulcers
conditions. This study aimed to validate the LEFS questionnaire for Flemish Dutch-speaking patients with DFU in Belgium. Methods: This observational cohort study included 100 patients with DFU from the ...
Sex differences in diabetic foot ulcer severity and outcome in Belgium
multidisciplinary Diabetic Foot Clinics (IQED-Foot) Study Group Source: PlosOne, Volume 18, Issue 2 (2023) Keywords: diabetic foot ulcer IQED-Foot outcome sex difference Abstract: Background Sex differences are ...
The COVID-19 pandemic minimally interfered with delivery of care and did not result in worse outcomes of diabetic foot ulcers in Belgium
improvement initiative (IQED-Foot), a prospective cohort study was conducted among 21 DFC. 910 consecutive patients with DFU of Wagner grade ≥ 2 were included between 01/01 and 30/09/2020. Patients were divided ...
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the presentation rate and severity of diabetic foot ulcers in Belgium
presentation rate and severity of diabetic foot ulcers (DFU) at presentation in Belgian DFC s. Materials and methods: A multicentre, prospective cohort study was done among 22 recognized DFC s in Belgium in ...
The COVID-19 pandemic strongly reduced the presentation rate of diabetic foot ulcers in Belgium, but the impact on severity was limited to slightly larger lesions
quality improvement initiative (IQED-Foot), a prospective cohort study was conducted among 22 DFC. 887 consecutive patients with DFU of Wagner grade ≥ 2 were included. Patients were divided based on their ...
Health-related quality of life in patients with diabetic foot ulceration: study protocol for adaptation and validation of patient-reported outcome measurements (PROMs) in Dutch-speaking patients.
ANALYSIS: This study will be conducted as a monocentre observational cohort study in DFU patients presenting at a hospital-based multidisciplinary diabetic foot clinic. Data will be collected from the medical ...
Clinical action measures improve the reliability of feedback on quality of care in diabetes centres: a retrospective cohort study.
Care Reproducibility of Results Retrospective Studies Abstract: BACKGROUND: Assessment of quality of care using classical threshold measures (TM) is open to debate. Measures that take into account the ...
Negative determinants of diabetic foot ulcer healing: 6-month follow-up of a large multicentre cohort
death, whichever occurred first. Cumulative incidence functions were studied and Cox proportional hazards regression was used to identify determinants of healing by using a forward selection method, taking ...