Diagnosis and Treatment of Diabetic Foot Infections

TLDR: Foot infections in patients with diabetes cause substantial morbidity and frequent visits to health care professionals and may lead to amputation of a lower extremity and, thus, the urgency and venue of management.

Abstract: Benjamin A. Lipsky, Anthony R. Berendt, H. Gunner Deery, John M. Embil, Warren S. Joseph, Adolf W. Karchmer, Jack L. LeFrock, Daniel P. Lew, Jon T. Mader, Carl Norden, and James S. Tan Medical Service, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, and Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington; Bone Infection Unit, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford, United Kingdom; Northern Michigan Infectious Diseases, Petoskey, Michigan; Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba; Section of Podiatry, Department of Primary Care, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Coatesville, Pennsylvania; Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts; Dimensional Dosing Systems, Sarasota, Florida; Department of Medicine, Service of Infectious Diseases, University of Geneva Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland; Department of Internal Medicine, The Marine Biomedical Institute, and Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas; Department of Medicine, New Jersey School of Medicine and Dentistry, and Cooper Hospital, Camden, New Jersey; and Department of Internal Medicine, Summa Health System, and Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Akron, Ohio