The Superiority of Removable Contact Splints in the Healing of Diabetic Foot during Postoperative Care

Table 2

A comparison of primary outcomes of DF healing after foot surgery among the study groups.

Evaluated parameters	Group R ()	Group W ()	Group WP ()	value
Hospital stay (days)
Hospitalization costs (€/1 hospitalization)
Healing of DF (% of patients)	78.4^†	55.7	65.5
Healing time (weeks)
Length of antibiotic therapy (weeks)

Data are presented as ; DF: diabetic foot; NS: nonsignificant; : value of significance among the study groups (group R: patients treated by a combination of a wheelchair plus a removable contact splint, group W: wheelchair only, and group WP: wheelchair plus a removable device) detected by one-way ANOVA, comparisons of all pairs based on Turkey-Kramer analysis, the Wilcoxon/Kruskal-Wallis tests; nonparametric comparisons for all pairs based on the Steel-Dwass method, contingency analysis, and the Cochran-Armitage trend test; group W vs. group R and WP; ^†group R compared to group W.