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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Australian evidence-based guidelines for the prevention and management of diabetes-related foot disease: a guideline summary |
Author: | Lazzarini, P.A. Raspovic, A. Prentice, J. Commons, R.J. Fitridge, R.A. Charles, J. Cheney, J. Purcell, N. Twigg, S.M. |
Citation: | Medical Journal of Australia, 2023; 219(10):485-495 |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Issue Date: | 2023 |
ISSN: | 0025-729X 1326-5377 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Peter A Lazzarini, Anita Raspovic, Jenny Prentice, Robert J Commons, Robert A Fitridge, James Charles, Jane Cheney, Nytasha Purcell, Stephen M Twigg |
Abstract: | INTRODUCTION: Diabetes-related foot disease (DFD) - foot ulcers, infection, ischaemia - is a leading cause of hospitalisation, disability, and health care costs in Australia. The previous 2011 Australian guideline for DFD was outdated. We developed new Australian evidence-based guidelines for DFD by systematically adapting suitable international guidelines to the Australian context using the ADAPTE and GRADE approaches recommended by the NHMRC. MAIN RECOMMENDATIONS: This article summarises the most relevant of the 98 recommendations made across six new guidelines for the general medical audience, including: prevention - screening, education, self-care, footwear, and treatments to prevent DFD; classification - classifications systems for ulcers, infection, ischaemia and auditing; peripheral artery disease (PAD) - examinations and imaging for diagnosis, severity classification, and treatments; infection - examinations, cultures, imaging and inflammatory markers for diagnosis, severity classification, and treatments; offloading - pressure offloading treatments for different ulcer types and locations; and wound healing - debridement, wound dressing selection principles and wound treatments for non-healing ulcers. CHANGES IN MANAGEMENT AS A RESULT OF THE GUIDELINE: For people without DFD, key changes include using a new risk stratification system for screening, categorising risk and managing people at increased risk of DFD. For those categorised at increased risk of DFD, more specific self-monitoring, footwear prescription, surgical treatments, and activity management practices to prevent DFD have been recommended. For people with DFD, key changes include using new ulcer, infection and PAD classification systems for assessing, documenting and communicating DFD severity. These systems also inform more specific PAD, infection, pressure offloading, and wound healing management recommendations to resolve DFD. |
Keywords: | Amputation Bacterial infections Diabetes complications Orthopedics Peripheral vascular diseases Wound healing |
Rights: | © 2023 The Authors. Medical Journal of Australia published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of AMPCo Pty Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. |
DOI: | 10.5694/mja2.52136 |
Grant ID: | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1143435 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1194702 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja2.52136 |
Appears in Collections: | Surgery publications |
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