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Clinical Study

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

Table 2

Major amputations by type at Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.


Variable	Before intervention	After intervention	Test statistic	value

Time in months	42	48
above knee amputations	124	113^*
Mean (SD)	2.95 (2.44)	2.13 (1.81)	−1.82 ()	0.07
Median (IQR)	2 (1–4)	2 (1–3)	1.47 ()	0.14
below knee amputations	166	41^*
Mean (SD)	3.95 (2.64)	0.77 (1.05)	−7.35 ()	<0.0001
Median (IQR)	3 (2–5)	0 (0-1)	6.82 ()	<0.0001

Represents total with available dates. One AKA and 3 BKAs were not dated.

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