The Guyana Diabetes and Foot Care Project: Improved Diabetic Foot Evaluation Reduces Amputation Rates by Two-Thirds in a Lower Middle Income Country

Table 1

Diabetic foot (DF) admissions and amputation rates at Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.

Variable	Before DFC (30 months)	After DFC (22 months)	Analysis
DF admissions (ward records)	633	924
Number of amputations	262	110
Average monthly proportion DF patient with major amputation	41.4%	11.9%	< 0.0001