Table 2.
Baseline characteristics of wound
| Overall | Conventional | Orthèse Diabète | Missing data (n) | |
| Number | 112 | 58 | 54 | |
| Previous foot ulcer | 74 (66) | 39 (67) | 35 (65) | 1 |
| Wound location | 21 | |||
| Right foot | 44 (39) | 23 (40) | 21 (39) | |
| Toe | 29 (32) | 16 (35) | 13 (29) | |
| Forefoot | 39 (43) | 16 (35) | 23 (51) | |
| Midfoot | 16 (17) | 10 (22) | 6 (13) | |
| Hindfoot | 7 (8) | 4 (8) | 3 (7) | |
| Wound duration | 21 | |||
| <1 week | 3 (3) | 1 (2) | 2 (4) | |
| 1–2 weeks | 17 (19) | 8 (18) | 9 (20) | |
| >2 weeks | 71 (78) | 37 (80) | 34 (76) | |
| Wound depth (mm) | 5 (2 to 10) | 5 (2 to 10) | 6.5 (3 to 10) | 21 |
| Multiple ulcers (>1) | 21 (17) | 12 (21) | 9 (17) | 0 |
| Infection | 26 (23) | 14 (24) | 12 (22) | 21 |
| Soft tissue infection | 21 (19) | 10 (17) | 11 (20) | |
| Osteomyelitis | 10 (9) | 4 (7) | 6 (11) | |
| Ipsilateral ankle brachial index | 1.14±0.19 | 1.10±0.21 | 1.19±0.17 | 20 |
| ≤0.9 range | 12 (13) | 9 (19) | 3 (7) | |
| ≥1.40 range | 11 (12) | 5 (10) | 6 (14) | |
| Lower-extremity artery disease | 33 (29) | 19 (33) | 14 (26) | 2 |
| History of lower-limb amputation | 0 | |||
| Ipsilateral | 47 (42) | 26 (45) | 21(39) | |
| Toe | 37 (79) | 21 (81) | 16 (76) | |
| Transmetatarsal | 10 (21) | 5 (19) | 5 (24) | |
| Controlateral | 16 (14) | 4 (7) | 12 (22) | |
| Toe | 14 (77) | 4 (100) | 10 (83) | |
| Transmetatarsal | 2 (13) | 0 (0) | 2 (17) | |
| Classification of index ulcer according PEDIS score* | ||||
| Perfusion | 20 | |||
| Grade 1 | 83 (90) | 42 (88) | 41 (93) | |
| Grade 2 | 9 (10) | 6 (12) | 3 (7) | |
| Extent/Size (cm²) | 1.4 (0.6 to 3.7) | 1.2 (0.5 to 3.6) | 1.6 (0.8 to 4.2) | 0 |
| Depth/Tissue loss | 12 | |||
| Grade 1 | 69 (69) | 32 (65) | 37 (72) | |
| Grade 2 | 22 (22) | 12 (25) | 10 (20) | |
| Grade 3 | 9 (9) | 5 (10) | 4 (8) | |
| Infection | 21 | |||
| Grade 1 | 65 (71) | 32 (70) | 33 (74) | |
| Grade 2 | 16 (18) | 10 (21) | 6 (13) | |
| Grade 3 | 10 (11) | 4 (9) | 6 (13) | |
| Sensation | 0 | |||
| Grade 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Grade 2 | 112 (100) | 58 (100) | 54 (100) | |
| Clinical status of the wound bed tissue | 1 | |||
| Granulation tissue | 43 (38) | 18 (31) | 25 (46) | |
| Sloughy | 44 (39) | 18 (31) | 26 (48) | |
| Heterogenous | 4 (4) | 3 (5) | 1 (2) | |
| Necrotic | 2 (2) | 0 (0) | 2 (4) | |
| Hemorrhagic | 12 (11) | 7 (12) | 5 (9) | |
| Infected | 6 (5) | 4 (7) | 2 (4) | |
| Hyperkeratosis | 56 (50) | 30 (52) | 26 (48) | 1 |
| Type of dressing | 1 | |||
| Fat | 23 (21) | 10 (17) | 13 (24) | |
| Hydrocolloid | 10 (9) | 7 (12) | 3 (6) | |
| Hydrogel | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | |
| Alginate | 56 (50) | 33 (57) | 23 (43) | |
| Hydrofibre | 7 (6) | 2 (3) | 5 (9) | |
| Antimicrobial | 2 (2) | 0 (0) | 2 (4) | |
| Others | 18 (16) | 8 (14) | 10 (19) | |
| Offloading before inclusion | 39 (35) | 16 (28) | 23 (43) | 21 |
Data expressed as number (percentage) of participants and mean±SD or median (25th, 75th percentiles) for continuous variables with skewed distribution (wound depth). Missing data are presented as number of participants.
*From Schaper.33