This is the sixth article in the “DFA Guides You Through” series on Australian and International diabetic foot disease guidelines.  In the previous five sections, we have guided you through the two most important evidence-based diabetic foot disease documents available for Australian clinicians: the Australian and International guidelines. However, the journey does not end here; this is where it begins…

This is the fifth article in the “DFA Guides You Through” series on Australian and International diabetic foot disease guidelines.  As discussed in our previous article, peripheral artery disease and infection were outside the scope of the Australian guidelines. For the Australian situation, a therapeutic guideline exists for antibiotic use, which can be applied to patients…

This is the fourth article in the “DFA Guides You Through” series on Australian and International diabetic foot disease guidelines. In this article, we compare the Australian guideline and IWGDF guidance on the management of diabetic foot disease. Management of diabetic foot disease is divided in three topics: organization of care and ulcer assessment; footwear and offloading; and wound…

This is the third article in the “DFA Guides You Through” series on Australian and International diabetic foot disease guidelines. Prevention has long been the Cinderella of diabetic foot disease, receiving scant attention in research and guidelines. While it is still underrepresented in research (of the last 100 published RCTs on diabetic foot disease only…

This is the second article in the “DFA Guides You Through” series on Australian and International diabetic foot disease guidelines. You can find the first article here. Both the Australian and the International Working Group on the Diabetic Foot (IWGDF) Guidelines on diabetic foot disease use clearly formulated recommendations based on well-defined grading systems and extensive systematic literature searches, resulting…

This is the first article in the “DFA Guides You Through” series on Australian and International diabetic foot disease guidelines. The next article provides an overview of both guidelines. In 2011, the Australian National Evidence-Based Guideline “Prevention, Identification and Management of Foot Complications in Diabetes” was published. This guideline updated and replaced a foot-related chapter in the…