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Record W4409171298 · doi:10.12688/hrbopenres.14119.1

Exploring diabetic foot screening programs with integrated consolidated framework for implementation: Rapid review protocol

2025· preprint· en· W4409171298 on OpenAlexafffundabout
Virginie Blanchette, Maya Fakhfakh, Yassin Andoulsi, Magali Brousseau‐Foley, Jennifer A. Pallin, Claire Buckley, Laura M. Drudi, Charles de Mestral, Janet L. Kuhnke, Caroline McIntosh

Bibliographic record

VenueHRB Open Research · 2025
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicDiabetic Foot Ulcer Assessment and Management
Canadian institutionsCape Breton UniversitySt. Michael's HospitalUniversité de MontréalUniversité LavalUniversity of TorontoUniversité du Québec à Trois-RivièresUniversité du Québec
FundersFonds de Recherche du Québec - SantéHealth Research BoardUniversité du Québec à Trois-Rivières
KeywordsDiabetic footProtocol (science)Computer scienceMedicineProcess managementDiabetes mellitusBusinessPathologyAlternative medicine

Abstract

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Background Diabetic foot ulcers (DFU)s pose significant challenges for individuals with diabetes, leading to severe consequences, such as lower extremity amputations (LEA)s, reduced quality of life, and increased mortality. Disorganized diabetic foot care services contribute to health inequities worldwide, highlighting the need for structured preventive measures, which require an understanding of organizational and systemic components of the implementation of foot screening programs or initiatives, including equity factors. Thus, the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) is one of the most widely used frameworks for assessing these factors and contexts. This helps to reduce the risk of failure of implementation efforts in the real world and can help to support the scaling up of preventative measures. This review aims to analyze foot screening programs or initiatives for individuals at risk of DFUs and LEAs, define their key components and implementation determinants, identify barriers and facilitators, and describe effective implementation strategies in primary care with CFIR. Methods A rapid review will be conducted following the Canadian method by Dobbins (2017) and reported according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Protocol guidelines. The research question is defined using the PICO framework. A systematic search will be conducted in MEDLINE, CINAHL, and EMBASE. Primary studies in English or French, including both primary study designs and knowledge syntheses, will be screened according to the defined eligibility criteria via Covidence. Study quality will be appraised using the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool and data will be synthesized guided by the CFIR. Data synthesis will focus on implementation determinants, including barriers, facilitators, and implementation strategies. Discussion Findings will inform policy, practice and decision making regarding the implementation of screening programs. This can promote the development of screening programs for diabetic foot complications across Canada or in other countries.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.091
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.110
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Systematic review · Consensus signal: Systematic review
GenreCandidate signal: Protocol · Consensus signal: Protocol
Teacher disagreement score0.118
Threshold uncertainty score0.483

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0910.110
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0050.005
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0160.018
Bibliometrics0.0170.019
Science and technology studies0.0050.004
Scholarly communication0.0080.009
Open science0.0060.007
Research integrity0.0060.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.1180.014

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.492
GPT teacher head0.550
Teacher spread0.058 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSystematic review
Domainnot available
GenreProtocol

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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