Zoekresultaten - 15 results
Evolution of patient characteristics and outcomes concerning diabetic foot ulcer care in Belgium between 2008 and 2020
multidisciplinary diabetic foot clinic outcomes Abstract: Background/Aims: Since 2005, recognized Belgian multidisciplinary diabetic foot clinics (MDFC s) participate to biennial audit-feedback cycles, allowing to ...
Evolution and determinants of glycaemic control in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes in Belgium: A 10-year period observational real-world study
Source: ISPAD (2022) Abstract: Since 2008 all Belgian paediatric diabetes centres (PDC s) participate to a biennial audit/feedback, allowing to monitor the quality of care given in PDC s and to describe ...
The COVID-19 pandemic minimally interfered with delivery of care and did not result in worse outcomes of diabetic foot ulcers in Belgium
Study Group, Diabetic Foot Study Group, Bratislava, Slovakia (2022) Keywords: COVID-19 Diabetic Foot diabetic foot ulcer Abstract: Aim: The Belgian government introduced a national COVID-19 lockdown from ...
Bottom-up approach to build a ‘precision’ risk factor classification for diabetic foot ulcer healing. Proof-of-concept
identify independent predictors of DFU healing. Methods: 1,664 DFU patients were included by 34 Belgian diabetic foot clinics (DFC s). Twenty-one patient- and foot-related characteristics were recorded at ...
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
Diabetic Foot Study Group, Diabetic Foot Study Group, Online (2021) Keywords: COVID-19 Diabetic Foot diabetic foot ulcer Abstract: Aim: The Belgian government introduced a national COVID-19 lockdown from ...
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.
are not validated in the Dutch language. The purpose of this study is to culturally adapt and validate the DFS- SF and LEFS questionnaires for Belgian Dutch-speaking patients with DFU. METHODS AND ...
Decreasing rates of major lower-extremity amputation in people with diabetes but not in those without: a nationwide study in Belgium.
Data for 2009-2013 were provided by the Belgian national health insurance funds, covering more than 99% of the Belgian population (about 11 million people). We estimated the age-sex standardised annual ...
Declining offloading rates in Belgian Recognized Diabetic Foot Clinics (RDFC): results from an audit-feedback quality improvement initiative.
other off-loading techniques (30.4 and 19.9%, P=0.02), but not knee-high off-loading (7.0 and 8.1%). Conclusion: Periodical audits in Belgian Recognized Diabetic Foot Clinics have shown a decline in ...
Low prevalence of previous lower limb revascularisation in patients with diabetes and acute Charcot foot: results from a case-control study.
ulcers (DFU) (Charcot group, N=50) were retrospectively identified in a database used for quality of care monitoring in 36 Belgian specialized diabetic foot clinics in the period 2005-2011. [1] Patients ...