New Reporting Standards Are Required to Assess the Impact of Vascular Intervention on Patients with Diabetic Foot Ulceration

The UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published its report on inpatient management of diabetic foot problems in 2011.1 This should be very significant for the vascular clinician; after all, we are all aware of the increasing worldwide pandemic of diabetic disease and its influence on our day-to-day vascular practice.2 NICE posed a deceptively simple review question “When is the optimal time for surgical management (including revascularisation and orthopaedic interventions) to prevent amputation for diabetic foot problems?” The response was equally simple: “The systematic search retrieved 9817 studies.
Source: European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery - Category: Surgery Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research