50% drop in rate of hospital acquired foot ulcers, audit shows

50% drop in rate of hospital acquired foot ulcers, audit shows Only 1.1% of inpatients with diabetes developed a new foot lesion during their admission to hospital in 2015 – halving from the 2.2% rate when inpatient auditing began in 2010.

The new figures come from the National Diabetes Inpatient Audit (NaDIA), carried out by the Health and Social Care Information Centre, in collaboration with Diabetes UK.

However, since 2010, similar improvements in the other two main hospital inpatient harms - severe hypoglycaemic episodes and the severe life-threatening and wholly preventable condition diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) - have not occurred. OnMedica