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Article: Community-based diabetic foot teams: are they the way forward?(Guest editorial)
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- The Diabetic Foot
- Article date:
- March 22, 2006
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In response to the question asked in the last editorial of The Diabetic Foot (McInnes, 2005), 'Where were you on World Diabetes Day?' (14 November 2005), I was in a small Pennine town, doing diabetic foot risk screening at a GP practice. But it was other comments in the editorial that prompted my reply.
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That editorial as well as several others over the past few years have put an inherent value on the multidisciplinary foot team being sited in the hospital setting. This, I think, is mainly due to the emergence over the last 20 years of hospital-based models, which have demonstrated benefits to local diabetes populations (Edmonds et ...