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- Title
The unique multidisciplinarity of diabetes‐related foot disease.
- Authors
van Netten, Jaap J.; Apelqvist, Jan; Bus, Sicco A.; Fitridge, Robert; Game, Fran; Monteiro‐Soares, Matilde; Senneville, Eric; Schaper, Nicolaas C.
- Abstract
Few diseases globally require treatment from so many different disciplines as diabetes‐related foot disease. At least 25 different professionals may be involved: casting technicians, dermatologists, diabetes (educator) nurses, diabetologists, dieticians, endocrinologists, general practitioners, human movement scientists, infectious diseases experts, microbiologists, nuclear medicine physicians, orthopaedic surgeons, orthotists, pedorthists, physical therapists, plastic surgeons, podiatric surgeons, podiatrists, prosthetists, psychologists, radiologists, social workers, tissue viability physicians, vascular surgeons, and wound care nurses. A shared vocabulary and shared treatment goals and recommendations are then essential. The International Working Group on the Diabetic Foot (IWGDF) has produced guidelines and supporting documents to stimulate and support shared and multidisciplinary evidence‐based treatment in diabetes‐related foot disease. In this special virtual issue of Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews, all 21 documents of the 2023 update of the IWGDF Guidelines are bundled, added with a further 6 reviews from multidisciplinary experts to drive future research and clinical innovations, based on their contributions to the International Symposium on the Diabetic Foot. We hope the readers will enjoy this special virtual issue, and widely implement the knowledge shared here in their daily clinical practice and research endeavours with the goal to improve the care for people with diabetes‐related foot disease.
- Subjects
FOOT diseases; SOCIAL workers; GENERAL practitioners; PROSTHETISTS; PLASTIC surgeons; DIABETIC foot; ENDOCRINOLOGISTS
- Publication
Diabetes/Metabolism Research & Reviews, 2024, Vol 40, Issue 4, p1
- ISSN
1520-7552
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/dmrr.3804