A new Australian strategy should finally reduce the significant national burden of diabetes-related foot disease
Diabetes-related foot disease (DFD) is “common, complex, and costly”1 and underappreciated in Australia.2 With DFD not even rating a footnote mention in recent national chronic disease strategies,3 it is arguably Australia’s least known major health problem.2 If Australia is to reduce avoidable amputations, major improvements in the way we approach DFD are urgently needed.2,4
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Diabetic Foot Australia is kindly supported by grant funding from the Wound Management Innovation Cooperative Research Centre.
We are all authors of the Australian Diabetes-related Foot Disease Strategy 2018–2022, and members of the steering committee of the Diabetic Foot Australia Wound Management Innovation Cooperative Research Centre.