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Declining offloading rates in Belgian Recognized Diabetic Foot Clinics (RDFC): results from an audit-feedback quality improvement initiative.
Caren Randon; Eric Weber; Kris Doggen Source: 14th annual meeting of the DFSG, Diabetic Foot Study Group, Issue Diabetic Foot Study Group, Porto, Portugal (2017) Abstract: Aim: To evaluate how DFU ...
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 ...
Low prevalence of previous lower limb revascularisation in patients with diabetes and acute Charcot foot: results from a case-control study.
acute phase. Preserved local perfusion is a hypothesized prerequisite for the detrimental inflammatory response. We sought support for this hypothesis by studying the prevalence of previous lower limb ...
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 ...
Implementation of a quality improvement initiative in Belgian diabetic foot clinics: feasibility and initial results.
Randon; Eric Weber; Viviane Van Casteren; Nobels, Frank; Initiative for Quality Improvement and Epidemiology in Diabetic Foot Clinics (IQED-Foot) Study Group Source: Diabetes Metab Res Rev, Volume 30, Issue ...