Can procalcitonin predict bone infection in people with diabetes with infected foot ulcers?
In this group of patients, PCT failed to discriminate patients with bone infection. Erythrocyte sedimentation rate can be used as a marker of osteomyelitis in diabetic persons.
Cognitive complaints are related to conversion among nondemented older adults. Complaint from both (i.e. mutual complaint) sources was most predictive of diagnostic outcome, followed by informant complaint, highlighting the need for obtaining informant corroboration to enhance prognosis and distinguish underlying pathological processes from normal cognitive aging. Self complaint was related inconsistently to diagnostic outcome.