T Institute of Medicine’s re p o rt, Priority Areas for National Action: Tr a n s f o rming Health Care Quality, identified diabetes as a health care a rea in need of improvement (Adams & Corrigan, 2003). Curre n t l y, about 24 million Americans or nearly 8% of the population have diabetes, and another 57 million are at risk for developing the disease (Centers for Disease Control and Preventio...

Background Implementation of interprofessional clinical guidelines for the prevention of neuropathic diabetic foot ulceration has demonstrated positive effects regarding ulceration and amputation rates. Current foot care recommendations are primarily based on research regarding the prevention of ulcer recurrence and focused on reducing the magnitude of plantar stress (pressure overload). Yet, f...

BACKGROUND India has a diabetes population that is growing and alongside this, the incidence of limb threatening foot problems is increasing. Foot health care provision does not yet meet this demand. In one locality in India, clinicians had an unstructured approach to foot health assessments resulting in poor adoption of evidence based guidelines from the West and a persistence of serious foot ...

Introduction: Diabetes neuropathy has been rated the third most common diabetes complication and foot ulcer which is result of diabetic commonly happens thus, patients with mellitus need to understand practice self-foot care possess excellent technique on self-assessment. Objective: This study aimed determine knowledge assessment among mellitus. Methods: A quantitative, cross-sectional was cond...

Background Many different guidelines recommend people with foot complications, or those at risk, should attend multiple health professionals for foot care each year. However, few studies have investigated the characteristics of those attending health professionals for foot care and if those characteristics match those requiring foot care as per guideline recommendations. The aim of this paper w...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the lifetime health and economic effects of optimal prevention and treatment of the diabetic foot according to international standards and to determine the cost-effectiveness of these interventions in the Netherlands. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A risk-based Markov model was developed to simulate the onset and progression of diabetic foot disease in patients with newly d...

PURPOSE The purposes of this study were to assess the level of foot self-care performed in a rural, multiethnic population of older adults and to identify factors associated with foot self-care. METHODS The Evaluating Long-term Diabetes Self-management Among Elder Rural Adults study included a random sample of 701 African American, Native American, and white adults from 2 rural North Carolina...