Creation of a multidisciplinary, evidence based, clinical guideline for the assessment, investigation and management of acute diabetes related foot complications

Abstract

Aims: To design a multidisciplinary, evidenced-based, clinical guideline for the assessment, investigation and management of inpatients with acute diabetes related foot complications. Methods: A systematic search of both published (identified by searching all major electronic databases and hand searching key journals) and unpublished literature (derived from national and internationally recognized experts) identified 266 articles specific to diabetes related foot complications. Of these, 126 (47%) were assessed to be methodologically sound and clinically relevant. A narrative summary with the articles tabulated according to their level of evidence was prepared. A multidisciplinary expert gro..