Pam Chen, Nalini Campillo Vilorio, Ketan Dhatariya, William Jeffcoate, Ralf Lobmann, Caroline McIntosh, Alberto Piaggesi, John Steinberg, Prash Vas, Vijay Viswanathan, Stephanie Wu, Fran Game
BACKGROUND: It is critical that interventions used to enhance the healing of chronic foot ulcers in diabetes are backed by high-quality evidence and cost-effectiveness. In previous years, the systematic review accompanying guidelines published by the International Working Group of the Diabetic Foot performed 4-yearly updates of previous searches, including trials of prospective, cross-sectional and case-control design. AIMS: Due to a need to re-evaluate older studies against newer standards of reporting and assessment of risk of bias, we performed a whole new search from conception, but limiting studies to randomised control trials only...
March 2024: Diabetes/metabolism Research and Reviews