Crawford F, et al. - Using all available individual patient data from cohort studies conducted worldwide, researchers intended to derive and validate a prognostic model of independent risk factors for foot ulceration in diabetes. A systematic review and meta-analysis of individual patient data was conducted from 10 cohort studies of risk factors in the prediction of foot ulceration in diabetes. They found that this prognostic model of only 3 risk factors (a history of foot ulceration, an inability to feel a 10 g monofilament and the absence of any pedal pulse) compares favourably with more complex approaches to foot risk assessment recommended in clinical diabetes guidelines.