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Osteomyelitis was determined from bone culture and histologic analysis initially and for recurrence. Fisher exact and \u03c7\n                      <jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\n                      tests were used for dichotomous variables and Student\n                      <jats:italic>t<\/jats:italic>\n                      and Mann-Whitney\n                      <jats:italic>U<\/jats:italic>\n                      tests for continuous variables (\u03b1 = .05).\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"st3\">\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Twenty-four patients were diagnosed as having osteomyelitis and 11 as having soft-tissue infections. Four patients (16.7%) with osteomyelitis had reinfection based on bone biopsy. The success of osteomyelitis treatment varied based on the surrogate marker used to define remission: osteomyelitis infection (16.7%), failed wound healing (8.3%), reulceration (20.8%), readmission (16.7%), amputation (12.5%). There was no difference in outcomes among patients who were initially diagnosed as having osteomyelitis versus soft-tissue infections. There were no differences in osteomyelitis reinfection (16.7% versus 45.5%;\n                      <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                      = .07), wounds that failed to heal (8.3% versus 9.1%;\n                      <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                      = .94), reulceration (20.8% versus 27.3%;\n                      <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                      = .67), readmission for DFIs at the same site (16.7% versus 36.4%;\n                      <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                      = .20), amputation at the same site after discharge (12.5% versus 36.4%;\n                      <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                      = .10). Osteomyelitis at the index site based on bone biopsy indicated that failed therapy was 16.7%. Indirect markers demonstrated a failure rate of 8.3% to 20.8%.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"st4\">\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Most osteomyelitis markers were similar to markers in soft-tissue infection. Commonly reported surrogate markers were not shown to be specific to identify patients who failed osteomyelitis treatment compared with patients with soft-tissue infections. Given this, these surrogate markers are not reliable for use in practice to identify osteomyelitis treatment failure.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.7547\/20-147","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,11,3]],"date-time":"2020-11-03T14:51:51Z","timestamp":1604415111000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Are Surrogate Markers for Diabetic Foot Osteomyelitis Remission Reliable?"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"111","author":[{"given":"Peter A.","family":"Crisologo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Matthew","family":"Malone","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Javier","family":"La 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