Co-Creating the Foot Selfie– in Peru! A Patient-Centered App to Prevent Diabetic Foot Ulcers — Built With, Not For #FootSelfie #ActAgainstAmputation #DiabeticFoot #GlobalHealth @usc_vascular @alpslimb

A new paper in BMC Health Services Research describes how we co-created a Foot Selfie app with, not for, people living with diabetes, caregivers, and clinicians in urban Lima and semi-rural Piura, Peru. Here is how the end-users redesigned remote diabetic foot surveillance to fit the rooms where it actually happens.

Hospital stays and costs of telemedical monitoring versus standard follow-up for diabetic foot ulcer: an open-label randomized controlled study

Background Two randomised controlled trials (RCTs) have previously shown that telemedical monitoring of diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) reduces the number of visits to the outpatient clinic, without losing treatment efficacy or increasing costs. Here we present the results of an open-label, randomised controlled trial designed to investigate whether telemonitoring, provided by an expert nurse (with... Continue Reading →

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