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Objective: To compare one-year clinical outcomes in patients with different infection types: soft tissue-only, osteomyelitis with clean margin, and residual osteomyelitis (OM) after hospitalization for foot infection that required that surgery.

Methods: Patients were prospectively enrolled in two randomized controlled trials. Two hundred-forty patients with diabetes underwent surgery at a single site. Sixty-three patients had soft tissue infection, 82 had OM resected with clean margin, and 95 had residual OM. Descriptive statistics were performed with chi square.

Conclusion: There were no differences between infection groups for development of a new ulcer, number of soft tissue infections, number of osteomyelitis infections, number of additional surgeries, number of amputations, number of readmissions, or length of stay.

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A. L. Killeen: None. K. Davis: None. J. La fontaine: None. O. K. Oz: n/a. P. Crisologo: None. L. A. Lavery: None.

Funding

American Diabetes Association (1-15-TS-20 to L.A.L.)

© 2021 by the American Diabetes Association
2021
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