The financial burden of diabetes-related foot disease in Australia: a systematic review

Table 4 Three-year cost estimates per patient based on proportion of guideline-based care received (AUD 2020 prices)

	Current practice	Percentage of guideline-based care
Scenarios	30%	40%	50%	60%	70%	80%	90%	100%
Total costs	49,918	49,639	49,017	48,929	48,853	48,537	48,779	48,075
Outpatient DFU care	15,065	16,210	17,307	18,274	19,372	20,596	21,703	22,872
Hospitalisation	27,916	26,885	25,352	24,319	23,402	22,135	21,533	19,949
Minor amputation	4,521	4,267	4,131	4,093	3,890	3,694	3,481	3,313
Major amputation	2,415	2,277	2,227	2,243	2,189	2,112	2,063	1,940

Table adapted from Zhang et al. [26]
Abbreviations: AUD Australian Dollar, DFU Diabetes-Related Foot Ulceration

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