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Decreasing rates of major lower-extremity amputation in people with diabetes but not in those without: a nationwide study in Belgium.
RESULTS: A total of 5438 individuals (52.1% with diabetes) underwent a major LEA, 2884 people with above- and 3070 with below-the-knee major amputations. A significant decline in the major amputation rate ...
Declining offloading rates in Belgian Recognized Diabetic Foot Clinics (RDFC): results from an audit-feedback quality improvement initiative.
(Diabetic Foot Ulcer) are offloaded in RDFC and the evolution over time. RDFC receive their results after each audit for benchmarking (IQED-Foot project). Method: Comparison of offloading methods used in ...
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 ...
Core Standards of the EUBIROD Project. Defining a European Diabetes Data Dictionary for Clinical Audit and Healthcare Delivery.
Keywords: Clinical Audit Delivery of Health Care Diabetes Mellitus Dictionaries as Topic Europe Humans Reference Standards Reproducibility of Results Abstract: BACKGROUND: A set of core diabetes indicators ...
Low prevalence of previous lower limb revascularisation in patients with diabetes and acute Charcot foot: results from a case-control study.
without Charcot foot, but who had diabetic foot ulcers (DFU), served as controls (DFU group, N=3,147). Prevalence of previous LLR was compared between both groups using logistic regression. Results: The ...
Negative determinants of diabetic foot ulcer healing: 6-month follow-up of a large multicentre cohort
into account competing risks (major amputation and death), missingness of covariates and clustering of outcomes in DFC s. Results: At 6 months, the overall probability of healing, major amputation and ...
Implementation of a quality improvement initiative in Belgian diabetic foot clinics: feasibility and initial results.
Surveys and Questionnaires Abstract: BACKGROUND: This article aims to describe the implementation and initial results of an audit-feedback quality improvement initiative in Belgian diabetic foot clinics. ...
What determines inclusion in the early phase of the type 2 diabetes care trajectory in Belgium?
found to be statistically significant were included in a multivariate logistic regression model. RESULTS: The 2010 study recorded 4600 Belgian type 2 diabetes patients. According to the official criteria, ...