Development of the diabetic foot ulcer evaluation scale for globalization

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26861882
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Clinical nursing
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: Oe Makoto 東京大学, 医学部附属病院, 特任講師 (60389939)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 糖尿病足潰瘍

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We developed an assessment scale to evaluate healing process of diabetic foot ulcers with Indonesian researchers. We created a draft of the scale by extracting variables required for the assessment of diabetic foot ulcers by using the nominal group technique for 8 experts of wound care (4 Japanese experts and 4 Indonesian experts). We selected variables based on an advice from a dermatologist specialized in diabetic foot ulcers. The scale in English version was translated into Japanese version and corrected by a bilingual dermatologist.
We made a draft of the scale which has 11 variables (including depth, size, size scores, inflammation/infection, proportion of granulation tissue, type of necrotic tissue, proportion of necrotic tissue, proportion of slough, maceration, type of wound edge, and tunneling) and these variables are rated by score from 0 to 98.

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医歯薬学