Diabetic foot ulcer episodes are associated with an increased likelihood of all-cause inpatient admissions and death compared with periods after ulcer healing, according to a study published online Jan. 18 in Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice.
Brian J. Petersen, from Podimetrics in Somerville, Massachusetts, and colleagues examined data from the Medicare Limited Data Set from 2013 to 2019 to develop and validate an episode-of-care model for diabetic foot ulceration. Episodes of care were defined by clustering diabetic foot ulcer-related claims such that the longest time interval between consecutive claims in any cluster did not exceed a duration … read more