Open AccessAn electronic diabetes foot risk calculator
Author(s) -
Schoen Deborah,
Glance David,
Aggarwal Sandeep,
Thompson Sandra
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of foot and ankle research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.763
H-Index - 39
ISSN - 1757-1146
DOI - 10.1186/1757-1146-6-s1-p15
Subject(s) - medicine , calculator , foot (prosody) , podiatry , diabetic foot , guideline , referral , risk assessment , risk stratification , diabetes mellitus , rehabilitation , health care , podiatrist , physical therapy , intensive care medicine , family medicine , alternative medicine , surgery , pathology , philosophy , linguistics , computer science , endocrinology , operating system , computer security , complication , economic growth , economics
Background The MMEx Diabetes Foot risk calculator was designed in response to the WA Department of Health’s High Risk Foot Model of Care to improve the systematic approach to screening and treatment for high risk foot complications and the 2011 National Health and Medical Research Council’s (NHMRC) National Evidence-Based Guideline on Prevention, Identification and Management of Foot Complications in Diabetes that state, “a solution to the current impasse on the integration of decision support tools into medical software is needed urgently” and “any trained health professional can complete a foot risk stratification”. Teaching foot assessments is straightforward, but practitioners have difficulty with risk stratification and deciding appropriate follow-up and referral.