Prognosis of the infected diabetic foot ulcer: a 12-month prospective observational study.
Mwidimi NdosiA Wright-HughesS BrownM BackhouseB A LipskyM BhogalC ReynoldsP VowdenE B JudeJ NixonE A NelsonPublished in: Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association (2017)
Clinical outcomes at 12 months for people with an infected diabetic foot ulcer are generally poor. Our data confirm the adverse prognostic effect of limb ischaemia, longer ulcer duration and the presence of multiple ulcers.