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Table 1 Supporting tools or literature for QHRFF items

From: The Queensland high risk foot form (QHRFF) – is it a reliable and valid clinical research tool for foot disease?

QHRFF item

Supporting tool or literature

General demographics*

[35]

Indigenous status

[14]

Health professionals attending*

[14, 39]

Medical co-morbidity history*

[40, 41]

Medical (diabetes) history

[58]

Diabetes year diagnosed (duration)

[17, 42]

Recent BGLs > 15 mmol/L

[41, 42]

HbA1c result

[41, 42]

CKD

[41, 43]

ESRF

[41, 43]

High-risk factor history*

[14, 35, 39]

Clinical diagnoses of high-risk factors

Neuropathy

Monofilament test [1, 14, 23, 39, 44, 45]

PAD

Foot pulses, ankle brachial index and/or toe systolic pressure [1, 14, 21, 22, 39, 4649]

Acute Charcot

[14, 39]

Foot deformity

Six-point foot deformity scale [14, 50]

Risk classification

[14, 39, 51, 52]

Clinical diagnoses of foot disease

(Ulcer) type

[14, 53, 54]

Combined surface area mm2

[5456]

Combined surface area (change since last visit)

[5559]

Clinical signs of infection

[1, 54, 60, 61]

UTWCS grade

UTWCS tool [14, 62, 63]

Ulcer depth#

[1, 14, 54]

Clinical management principles performed*

[14, 39]

  1. *All items in this Domain cite the same references, unless otherwise stated.
  2. #Ulcer depth was not specifically an item recorded on the QHRFF, but can be directly extrapolated from the UTWCS Grade item.