Diabetic foot is one of the most common and serious chronic complications of diabetes. An estimated show that one amputation of a diabetic limb occurs every 20 seconds worldwide; The annual mortality rate of patients with diabetic foot ulcer is as high as 11%, while the mortality rate of amputees is as high as 22%. Domestic and foreign studies have shown that the cost of diabetic foot is huge, accounting for about one-third of the total medical expenses of diabetes. Several studies have shown that Chinese medicine in the treatment of diabetic foot may have good curative effect, but the lack of a unified traditional Chinese medicine treatment of diabetic foot clinical research at the core outcome of the index, therefore, the purpose of this study is setting a a core outcome of clinical study of traditional Chinese medicine treatment of diabetic foot, laying a foundation for better conducting clinical research.
ContributorsDai Xinyue, Zi Mingjie, Liu Chunxiang, Sun Mingyue, Wang Yiming, Gao Rui
Disease Category: Endocrine & metabolic
Disease Name: Diabetic foot ulcer/ulceration
Age Range: 18 - 80
Sex: Either
Nature of Intervention: Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Charities
- Clinical experts
- Consumers (patients)
- Epidemiologists
- Methodologists
- Patient/ support group representatives
- Researchers
- Statisticians
- COS for clinical trials or clinical research
- COS for practice
- Consensus meeting
- Delphi process
- Interview
- Systematic review
Long list of outcomes will be identified from 3 sources. Firstly a systematic review of the literature. Secondly patient interviews and thirdly from an Retrospective study.
A 2-3 round Delphi survey will then be undertaken to condense the long list of outcomes and the final core outcome set will be decided by a consensus meeting of the steering committee.