Redefining diabetic foot disease management service during COVID-19 pandemic

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BACKGROUND & AIMS: Diabetic Foot Disease (DFD) management had to be redefined during COVID-19. We aim to evaluate the impact of this on diabetic foot care services and the strategies adopted to mitigate them.

METHODS: We have performed a comprehensive review of the literature using suitable keywords on the Search engines of PubMed, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Research Gate in the first two weeks of May 2020. We have reviewed how the diabetic foot service in the hospital and community setting has been affected by the current Coronavirus outbreak.

RESULTS: We found considerable disruption in diabetic foot service provisions both in the primary care and in the hospital settings. Social distancing and shielding public health guidelines have impacted the delivery of diabetic foot services.

CONCLUSION: As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads worldwide, health care systems are facing the tough challenges in delivering diabetic foot service to patients. Public health guidelines and the risk of virus transmission have resulted in reconfiguration of methods to support and manage diabetic foot patients including remote consultations.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:14

Enthalten in:

Diabetes & metabolic syndrome - 14(2020), 5 vom: 15. Sept., Seite 833-838

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Jaly, Ibrahim [VerfasserIn]
Iyengar, Karthikeyan [VerfasserIn]
Bahl, Shashi [VerfasserIn]
Hughes, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
Vaishya, Raju [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Coronavirus
Diabetes mellitus
Diabetic foot
Journal Article
Pandemics
Review

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Date Completed 24.09.2020

Date Revised 24.02.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.dsx.2020.06.023

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM311198074