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Management of diabetes‐related foot disease in the outpatient setting during the COVID ‐19 pandemic
Author(s) -
Pang Bingyan,
Shah Priyal M.,
Manning Laurens,
Ritter J. Carsten,
Hiew Jonathan,
Hamilton Emma J.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
internal medicine journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 1444-0903
DOI - 10.1111/imj.15392
Subject(s) - medicine , guideline , pandemic , covid-19 , diabetes mellitus , disease management , emergency medicine , disease , diabetic foot , medical emergency , intensive care medicine , family medicine , infectious disease (medical specialty) , outbreak , virology , pathology , parkinson's disease , endocrinology
The use of telephone and/or video consultation in routine management of acute diabetes‐related foot disease (DFD) before the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic at a tertiary hospital is unprecedented. In March 2020, the Diabetes Feet Australia (DFA) released a national guideline to inform DFD management during the COVID‐19 pandemic. The present study aimed to describe the adherence to the DFA guideline of managing acute DFD using telephone and/or video consultation at a Western Australian tertiary hospital during this period. We found >80% adherence rate to the DFA guideline and the management of active DFD using telephone and/or video consultations was feasible and acceptable in carefully selected patients.