Concordance in diabetic foot ulceration: a cross-sectional study of agreement between wound swabbing and tissue sampling in infected ulcers

Concordance in diabetic foot ulceration: a cross-sectional study of agreement between wound swabbing and tissue sampling in infected ulcers

Background: There is inadequate evidence to advise clinicians on the relative merits of swabbing versus tissue sampling of infected diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs). Objectives: To determine (1) concordance between culture results from wound swabs and tissue samples from the same ulcer; (2) whether or no...

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Main Authors: E Andrea Nelson, Alexandra Wright-Hughes, Sarah Brown, Benjamin A Lipsky, Michael Backhouse, Moninder Bhogal, Mwidimi Ndosi, Catherine Reynolds, Gill Sykes, Christopher Dowson, Michael Edmonds, Peter Vowden, Edward B Jude, Tom Dickie, Jane Nixon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: NIHR Journals Library 2016-11-01
Series:Health Technology Assessment
Subjects:
diabetic foot ulcer
infection
diagnostic agreement
microbiology techniques
prognosis
tissue sampling
swabbing
antibiotic therapy
polymerase chain reaction
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3310/hta20820

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https://doi.org/10.3310/hta20820

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