Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Uçkay, Ilker
• Aragón-Sánchez, Javier
• Lew, Daniel
• Lipsky, Benjamin A

Titel

Diabetic foot infections: what have we learned in the last 30 years?

Ist Teil von

• International journal of infectious diseases, 2015-11, Vol.40 (C), p.81-91

Ort / Verlag

Canada: Elsevier Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Highlights • Diabetic foot infections are a common, complex, and costly problem that will almost certainly increase in prevalence in the near future. • Clinical research over the past three decades has markedly increased our understanding of the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of both soft tissue and bone infections. • Diabetic foot infections are a heterogeneous group of infections in a diverse patient population. Therefore it is difficult to determine one optimal management and one optimal duration of antibiotic administration for the entire patient population. • The task is to implement available guidelines, to audit processes and outcomes, to educate providers and patients, and to further advance research.