| Title: |
Effectiveness of interventions to enhance healing of chronic foot ulcers in diabetes: A systematic review. |
| Authors: |
Chen, Pam, Vilorio, Nalini Campillo, Dhatariya, Ketan, Jeffcoate, William, Lobmann, Ralf, McIntosh, Caroline, Piaggesi, Alberto, Steinberg, John, Vas, Prash, Viswanathan, Vijay, Wu, Stephanie, Game, Fran |
| Source: |
Diabetes/Metabolism Research & Reviews; Mar2024, Vol. 40 Issue 3, p1-44, 44p |
| Subject Terms: |
FOOT ulcers, HEALING, NEGATIVE-pressure wound therapy, DIABETIC foot, WOUND healing |
| Abstract: |
Background: It is critical that interventions used to enhance the healing of chronic foot ulcers in diabetes are backed by high‐quality evidence and cost‐effectiveness. In previous years, the systematic review accompanying guidelines published by the International Working Group of the Diabetic Foot performed 4‐yearly updates of previous searches, including trials of prospective, cross‐sectional and case‐control design. Aims: Due to a need to re‐evaluate older studies against newer standards of reporting and assessment of risk of bias, we performed a whole new search from conception, but limiting studies to randomised control trials only. Materials and Methods: For this systematic review, we searched PubMed, Scopus and Web of Science databases for published studies on randomised control trials of interventions to enhance healing of diabetes‐related foot ulcers. We only included trials comparing interventions to standard of care. Two independent reviewers selected articles for inclusion and assessed relevant outcomes as well as methodological quality. Results: The literature search identified 22,250 articles, of which 262 were selected for full text review across 10 categories of interventions. Overall, the certainty of evidence for a majority of wound healing interventions was low or very low, with moderate evidence existing for two interventions (sucrose‐octasulfate and leucocyte, platelet and fibrin patch) and low quality evidence for a further four (hyperbaric oxygen, topical oxygen, placental derived products and negative pressure wound therapy). The majority of interventions had insufficient evidence. Conclusion: Overall, the evidence to support any other intervention to enhance wound healing is lacking and further high‐quality randomised control trials are encouraged. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: |
Complementary Index |
