ArticleDiabetic foot & ankle2018
Building a scalable diabetic limb preservation program: four steps to success.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Defining orthoplastic limb salvage centers: a systematic review.Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery · 2026Pooled it
- International BEST-CLI Collaborative: next steps to create a coordinated global initiative to improve awareness and access while reducing mortality and amputation for patients with chronic limb-threatening ischaemia.The British journal of surgery · 2025Article
- Evaluation and Management of Diabetes-related Foot Infections.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2023Article
- Diabetic foot in primary and tertiary (DEFINITE) Care: A health services innovation in coordination of diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) Care within a healthcare cluster - 18-month results from an observational population health cohort study.International wound journal · 2023Observational
- Community-engaged research in vascular surgery: An approach to decrease amputation disparities and effect population-level change.Seminars in vascular surgery · 2023Review
- Tackling diabetic foot: limb salvage during the COVID-19 pandemic.Therapeutic advances in endocrinology and metabolism · 2023Article
- How to build a limb salvage program.Seminars in vascular surgery · 2022Review
- Structure, processes, and initial outcomes of The Ottawa Hospital Multi-Specialist Limb-Preservation Clinic and Programme: A unique-in-Canada quality improvement initiative.International wound journal · 2022Article
- Socioecological model-based design and implementation principles of lower limb preservation programs as partners for limb-loss rehabilitation programs- A mini-review.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2022Review
- Steal syndrome from a superficial circumflex iliac perforator artery flap in a patient with a hypoplastic posterior tibial artery and severe diabetic peripheral artery disease.Journal of surgical case reports · 2021Article
- Struggling for normality: experiences of patients with diabetic lower extremity amputations and post-amputation wounds in primary care.Primary health care research & development · 2020Article
- A call for integrated foot care and amputation prevention pathways for patients with diabetes and peripheral arterial disease across Canada.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2019Article
- On the Cutting Edge: Wound Care for the Endovascular Specialist.Seminars in interventional radiology · 2018Review
- 'CPR for Feet' care bundle to improve foot assessment in inpatient diabetes.BMJ open quality · 2018Article
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Abstract
Over the past generation, limb preservation programs and diabetic foot services have begun to proliferate within academic health science centers as well as within health-care systems in general. We describe four key components for a successful program that, developed sequentially with temporal overlap, can allow the program to scale. The first component includes establishment of a 'hot foot line' for urgent emergency department/inpatient referral. The second includes development of a wound-healing clinic to address outpatient care through to remission. The third component focuses on the diabetic foot in remission to maximize ulcer-free days following healing. The fourth and final component focuses on implementation of local and widespread screening clinics to identify and triage patients into appropriate therapeutic and surveillance programs for healing, remission, and primary prevention. Along with developing each of these components, we describe discrete methods to quantify success.
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