The purpose of this study is to determine if dressing change with a kind of herb Yuyang ointment is clinically more efficacious and safer than Conventional treatment in the treatment of diabetic foot ulcers.
1. Developing a Document Retrieval strategy for clinical trials of Chinese medicine treatment of diabetic foot ulcer according to the research program(finished) 2. Selecting and Evaluating the above trials,developing a methodological quality evaluation criteria(finished) 3. extract information, verification, meta-analysis, sensitivity analysis and sub-group analysis(finished) 4. comprehensive evaluating the pros and cons evidences of traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture and Chinese and Western combined medicine with the treatment of diabetic foot of (finished) 5. we find dress change with a certain kind of herb ointment is very effective and safe to diabetic foot ulcers.The following step is randomized controlled multicenter clinical trial to verify it's efficacy and safety
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
100
a kind of ointment made from herb
endocrinology unit,No.1 people's hospital of Guiyang City
Guiyang, Guizhou, China
RECRUITINGThe primary objective is to determine the effect of this ointment on the incidence of complete wound closure.
Time frame: 6 months
Secondary objectives include: evaluating the acceleration of ulcer closure or facilitation of surgical closure, reduction of ulcer surface area over time, reduction in complications, the quality of life and it's safety.
Time frame: 6 months
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