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. 2020 Oct;43(10):e125-e126.
doi: 10.2337/dc20-1581. Epub 2020 Aug 7.

The COVID-19 Outbreak Negatively Affects the Delivery of Care for Patients With Diabetic Foot Ulcers

Chao Liu  1 , Jiaxing You  1 , Weifen Zhu  2 , Yixin Chen  2 , Shengyun Li  1 , Yuefeng Zhu  3 , Shujuan Ji  4 , Ying Wang  5 , Hongye Li  6 , Lin Li  7 , Shunwu Fan  6
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The COVID-19 Outbreak Negatively Affects the Delivery of Care for Patients With Diabetic Foot Ulcers

Chao Liu et al. Diabetes Care. 2020 Oct.
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Actual and predicted values of monthly hospitalizations for patients with DFUs. The numbers of inpatients with DFU episodes were 343 in 2016, 376 in 2017, 403 in 2018, and 413 in 2019. The monthly reported hospitalizations were entirely within the 95% CI for the predicted values in the year 2019. During the COVID-19 outbreak, actual hospitalizations declined in January, followed by a sharp reduction in February and a noticeable rise in March.
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