Current knowledge of morbidities and direct costs related to diabetic foot disorders: a literature review

Felix W A Waibel; Ilker Uçkay; Laura Soldevila-Boixader; Christina Sydler; Karim Gariani

doi:10.3389/fendo.2023.1323315

Current knowledge of morbidities and direct costs related to diabetic foot disorders: a literature review

Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2024 Jan 17:14:1323315. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2023.1323315. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Felix W A Waibel¹, Ilker Uçkay², Laura Soldevila-Boixader³, Christina Sydler¹, Karim Gariani^{4

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Affiliations

¹ Orthopaedic Surgery, Balgrist University Hospital, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
² Infectiology, Balgrist University Hospital, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
³ Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine Department, Consorci Sanitari Integral-CSI, Sant Joan Despí Hospital, Barcelona, Spain.
⁴ Service of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Nutrition, and Therapeutic Education, Faculty of Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁵ Diabetes Center of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland.

Abstract

Diabetes is a chronic disease associated with numerous complications including diabetic foot disorders, which are associated with significant morbidity and mortality as well as high costs. The costs associated with diabetic foot disorders comprise those linked to care (direct) and loss of productivity and poor quality of life (indirect). Due to the constant increase in diabetes prevalence, it is expected that diabetic foot disorder will require more resources, both in terms of caregivers and economically. We reviewed findings on management, morbidity, mortality, and costs related to diabetic foot disorder.

Keywords: cost; diabetic foot syndrome; infection; morbidity; review.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Cost of Illness
Diabetes Mellitus*
Diabetic Foot* / complications
Diabetic Foot* / epidemiology
Diabetic Foot* / therapy
Humans
Morbidity
Prevalence
Quality of Life

Grants and funding

The author(s) declare that no financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. No funding was associated this review article. Open access funding by University of Geneva.