Scottish foot ulcer risk score predicts foot ulcer healing in a regional specialist foot clinic

Diabetes Care

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2064-2069

  Leese, Graham ^a,b   Schofield, Christopher ^a   McMurray, Brian ^c   Libby, Gillian ^b   Golden, Judith ^c   MacAlpine, Ritchie ^a   Cunningham, Scott ^b   Morris, Andrew ^a,b   Flett, Murray ^a   Griffiths, Gareth ^a  

^a NINEWELLS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c Dundee Community Health Partnership   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC FOOT; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; FEMALE; FOOT ULCER; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; ULCER HEALING; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGED; AMPUTATION; DIABETIC FOOT; FOOT ULCER; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SCOTLAND; SELF CARE; SPECIALTIES, MEDICAL; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 34547651257     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 01495992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc07-0553     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Morris AD, McAlpine R, Steinke D, Boyle DI, Ebrahim AR, Vasudev N, Stewart CP, Jung RT, Leese GP, MacDonald TM, Newton RW: Diabetes and lower limb amputation in the community: a retrospective cohort study. DARTS/MEMO collaboration. Diabetes Care 21:738-743, 1998
2. van Houtum WH, Rauwerda JA, Ruwaard D, Schaper NC, Bakker K: Reduction in diabetes-related lower-extremity amputations in the Netherlands: 1991-2000. Diabetes Care 27:1042-1046, 2004
3. Calle-Pascual AL, Redondo MJ, Ballesteros M, Martinez-Salinas MA, Diaz JA, De Matias P, Calle JR, Gil E, Jimenez M, Serrano FJ, Martin-Alvarez PJ, Maranes JP: Nontraumatic lower extremity amputations in diabetic and non-diabetic subjects in Madrid, Spain. Diabetes Metab 23:519-523, 1997
4. Witso E, Ronningen H: Lower limb amputations: registration of all lower limb amputations performed at the University Hospital of Trondheim, Norway, 1994-1997. Prosthet Orthot Int 25:181-185, 2001
5. Van Houtum WH, Lavery LA: Outcomes associated with diabetes-related amputations in the Netherlands and in the state of California, USA. J Intern Med 240:227-231, 1996
6. Armstrong DG, Lavery LA, Vela SA, Quebedeaux TL, Fleischli JG: Choosing a practical screening instrument to identify patients at risk for diabetic foot ulceration. Arch Int Med 158:289-292, 1998
7. Veves A, Murray HJ, Young MJ, Boulton AJ: The risk of foot ulceration in diabetic patients with high foot pressure: a prospective study. Diabetologia 35:660-663, 1992
8. Lavery LA, Armstrong DG, Vela SA, Quebedeaux TL, Fleischli JG: Practical criteria for screening patients at high risk for diabetic foot ulceration. Arch Int Med 26:157-162, 1998
9. Young MJ, Breddy JL, Veves A, Boulton MJ: The prediction of diabetic neuropathic foot ulceration using vibration perception thresholds: a prospective study. Diabetes Care 17:557-560, 1994
10. Abbott CA, Vileikyte L, Williamson S, Carrington AL, Boulton AJ: Multicenter study of the incidence of and predictive risk factors for diabetic neuropathic foot ulceration. Diabetes Care 21:1071-1075, 1998
11. Rith-Najarian SJ, Stolusky T, Gohdes DM: Identifying diabetic patients at high risk for lower extremity amputation in a primary care health care setting: a prospective evaluation of simple screening criteria. Diabetes Care 15:1386-1389, 1992
12. Pham H, Armstrong DG, Harvey C, Harkless LB, Giurini JM, Veves A: Screening techniques to identify people at high risk for diabetic foot ulceration: a prospective multicenter trial. Diabetes Care 23:606-611, 2000
13. Boyko EJ, Ahoroni JH, Stensel V, Forsberg RC, Davignon DR, Smith DG: A prospective study of risk factors for diabetic foot ulcer: the Seattle Diabetic Foot Study. Diabetes Care 22:1036-1042, 1999
14. Peters EJ, Lavery LA: Effectiveness of the diabetic foot risk classification system of the International Working Group on the Diabetic Foot. Diabetes Care 24:1442-1447, 2001
15. Abbott CA, Carrington AL, Ashe H, Bath S, Every LC, Griffiths J, Hann AW, Hussein A, Jackson N, Johnson KE, Ryder CH, Torkington R, Van Ross ER, Whalley AM, Widdows P, Williamson S, Boulton AJ: The North West Diabetes Care Foot Study: incidence of, risk factors for, new diabetic foot ulceration in a community-based cohort. Diabet Med 19:377-384, 2002
16. Boyko EJ, Ahoroni JH, Cohen V, Nelson KM, Heagerty PJ: Prediction of diabetic foot ulcer occurrence using commonly available clinical information. Diabetes Care 29:1202-1207, 2006
17. Leese GP, Reid F, Green V, McAlpine R, Cunningham S, Emslie-Smith A, Morris AD, McMurray B, Connacher A: Predicting foot ulceration in diabetes: validation of a clinical tool in a population-based study. Int J Clin Prac 60:541-545, 2006
18. Scottish Intercollegiate Guideline Network (SIGN): SIGN guideline 55: the management of diabetes: Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh: SIGN, [article online], 2001. Available at www.sign.ac.uk/ guidelines/index.html. Accessed 12 June 2007
19. International Diabetes Federation: International concensus on the diabetic foot: five cornerstones, identification of the foot at risk: consensus meeting [article online], 2003. Available at www.iwgdf. org/concensus. Accessed 12 June 2007
20. Diabetes Action Plan: Scottish Executive, Edinburgh [article online], 2006. Available at www.scotland.gov.uk. Accessed 12 June 2007
21. Morris AD, Boyle DI, MacAlpine R, Emslie-Smith A, Jung RT, Newton RW, MacDonald TM: The diabetes audit and research in Tayside Scotland (DARTS) study: electronic record linkage to create a diabetes register. Br Med J 315:524-528, 1997
22. Armstrong DG, Lavery LA, Harkless LB: Validation of a diabetic wound classification system: the contribution of depth, infection, and ischemia to risk of amputation. Diabetes Care 21:855-859, 1998
23. Pound N, Chipchase S, Treece K, Game F, Jeffcoate W: Ulcer free survival following management of foot ulcers in diabetes. Diabet Med 22:1306-1309, 2005
24. Hjelm K, Nyberg P, Apelqvist J: Gender influences beliefs about health and illness in diabetic subjects with severe foot lesions. J Adv Nurs 40:673-684, 2002
25. Apleqvist J: Wound healing in diabetes: outcomes and costs. Clin Podiat Med Surg 15:21-39, 1998
26. Oyibo SO, Jude EB, Tarawneh I, Nguyen HC, Harkless LB, Boulton AJM: A comparison of two diabetic foot ulcer classification systems. Diabetes Care 24:84-88, 2001
27. Jeffcoate WJ, Chipchase SY, Ince P, Game FL: Assessing the outcome of the management of diabetic foot ulcers using ulcer-related and person-related measures. Diabetes Care 29:1784-1787, 2006
28. Schofield CJ, Libby G, Brennan GM, MacAlpine RR, Morris AD, Leese GP: Mortality and hospitalisation in patients after amputation: a comparison between patients with and without diabetes. Diabetes Care 29:2252-2256, 2006
29. Treece KA, Macfarlane RM, Pound N, Game FL, Jeffcoate WJ: Validation of a system of foot ulcer classification in diabetes mellitus. Diabet Med 21:987-991, 2004
30. Beckert S, Witte M, Wicke C, Konigsrainer A, Coerper S: A new wound-based severity score for diabetic foot ulcers: a prospective analysis of 1,000 patients. Diabetes Care 29:988-992, 2006
31. Adler AI, Boyko EJ, Ahroni JH, Smith DG: Lower-extremity amputation in diabetes: the independent effects of peripheral vascular disease, sensory neuropathy and foot ulcers. Diabetes Care 22:1029-1035, 1999
32. Margolis DJ, Allen-Taylor L, Hoffstad O, Berlin JA: Diabetic neuropathic foot ulcers and amputation. Wound Repair Regen 13:230-236, 2005
33. Oyibo SO, Jude EB, Tarawneh I, Nguyen HC, Armstrong DG, Harkless LB, Boulton AJM: The effects of ulcer size and site, patients age, sex and type and duration of diabetes on the outcome of diabetic foot ulcers. Diabet Med 18:133-138, 2001
34. Margolis DJ, Allen-Taylor L, Hoffstad O, Berlin JA: Diabetic neuropathic foot ulcers: predicting which ones will not heal. Am J Med 115:627-631, 2003