Table 3.
Dressings and compression patients were prescribed
| Order of treatment | Mean length of treatment (months) | Percentage of DFUs that were treated with the following dressings and compression | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antimicrobial (%) | Soft polymer (%) | Absorbent (%) | Foam (%) | Hydrocolloid (%) | Other (%) | Hydrogel (%) | Permeable (%) | Alginate (%) | Odour absorbent (%) | Low‐adherence (%) | Compression (%) | ||
| 1 | 1·41 | 36 | 25 | 22 | 19 | 19 | 18 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 13 |
| 2 | 2·48 | 29 | 17 | 16 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 15 | 11 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 19 |
| 3 | 2·39 | 27 | 17 | 18 | 21 | 16 | 17 | 14 | 13 | 14 | 11 | 11 | 18 |
| 4 | 3·22 | 29 | 18 | 20 | 21 | 21 | 18 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 22 |
| 5 | 3·18 | 27 | 19 | 16 | 17 | 17 | 18 | 13 | 13 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 15 |
| 6 | 4·09 | 26 | 17 | 23 | 22 | 16 | 18 | 16 | 11 | 13 | 10 | 11 | 26 |
DFU, diabetic foot ulcers.