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Natural History of Pedal Puncture Wounds in Diabetics

NCT01151891 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 188

Last updated 2011-01-12

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

There are no evidence (research) based guidelines for treatment of early, closed puncture wounds of the feet in diabetics. Surgeons usually see only the limb- and life-threatening consequences of puncture wounds of the feet in diabetics, and are therefore tempted to advocate more aggressive, preemptive, invasive primary treatment for all such wounds, assuming, from this blinkered perspective that all such wounds progress to serious infection. This study is designed to determine the natural history of puncture wounds of the feet in diabetics, specifically, whether all become infected or whether some do heal without any surgical intervention. It requires administration of a questionnaire to 188 known diabetics attending 11 selected outpatient health care centers in the parish of St. James, Jamaica.

Conditions

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • St. James Health Department

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Private Practice of Dr. Hector Robinson

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Private Practice of Dr. Curtis Yeates

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Cornwall Regional Hospital

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Jeffrey M East, MD · Cornwall Regional Hospital

Eligibility

Min Age
15 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-06-30
Primary Completion
2010-12-31
Completion
2010-12-31

Countries

  • Jamaica

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