The report by Maciejewski et al. (1) concerning the three quoted articles from our institution (2–4) is flawed. Our 1990 article is one of the first ever to attempt to assess custom-made “diabetic” footwear in a scientific manner. It was an observational study (not a trial), which could serve for generating hypotheses concerning technical features of diabetic footwear, the selection of patients for footwear studies, etc., rather than for settling the issue of the effectiveness of whatever kind of diabetic footwear. Our second article is from 1994 …
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