Researchers aimed at ascertaining if higher all-cause rates of mortality and resource utilization are recorded during periods of diabetic foot ulceration. In addition, an episode-of-care model for diabetic foot ulceration has been developed and validated.
- The Medicare Limited Data Set between 2013 and 2019 was analyzed for retrieval of data for this study.
- Episodes-of-care were defined by clustering diabetic foot ulcer linked claims such that the longest time interval between consecutive claims in any cluster did not extend beyond a duration which was adjusted to match two characteristics of foot ulcer