Management of diabetes‐related foot disease in the outpatient setting during the  COVID ‐19 pandemic | Zendy

Pang Bingyan | Zendy; Shah Priyal M. | Zendy; Manning Laurens | Zendy; Ritter J. Carsten | Zendy; Hiew Jonathan | Zendy; Hamilton Emma J. | Zendy

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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.

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