Evaluating the prognostic performance of bedside tests used for peripheral arterial disease diagnosis in the prediction of diabetic foot ulcer healing.

BMJ Open Diabetes Res Care · 2023 · PMC10016246 · PMID 36918215

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a trend toward significancep=0.054so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

There was also a trend toward significance for neuropathy, with 91.4% of patients who did not heal presenting with neuropathy compared with 76.9% of patients who went on to heal (p=0.054).

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did not reach statistical significanceno p-value reported

Although there was a trend toward significance for TBPI, this did not reach statistical significance for healing prediction and we found that TBPI could not be performed in almost a quarter of patients, thereby limiting its utility in routine clinical practice.

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