International Best Practice Guidelines EXPERT WORKING GROUP Authors Paul Chadwick, Principal Podiatrist, Salford Royal Foundation Trust, UK Michael Edmonds, Professor of Diabetes and Endocrinology, Diabetic Foot Clinic, King’s College Hospital, London, UK Joanne McCardle, Advanced Clinical and Research Diabetes Podiatrist, NHS Lothian University Hospital, Edinburgh, UK David G. Armstrong, Professor of Surgery and Director, Southern Arizona Limb Salvage Alliance (SALSA), University of Arizona College of Medicine, Arizona, USA Review group Jan Apelqvist, Senior Consultant, Department of Endocrinology, Skåne University Hospital, Malmo, Sweden Mariam Botros, Director, Diabetic Foot Canada, Canadian Wound Care Association and Clinical Coordinator, Women’s College Wound Healing Clinic, Toronto, Canada Giacomo Clerici,Chief Diabetic Foot Clinic, IRCC Casa di Cura Multimedica, Milan, Italy Jill Cundell, Lecturer/Practitioner, University of Ulster, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Northern Ireland Solange Ehrler, Functional Rehabilitation Department, IUR Clémenceau (Institut Universitaire de Réadaptation Clémenceau), Strasbourg, France Michael Hummel, MD, Diabetes Center Rosenheim & Institute of Diabetes Research, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany Benjamin A Lipsky, Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Washington, USA; Visiting Professor, Infectious Diseases, University of Geneva, Switzerland; Teaching Associate, University of Oxford and Deputy Director, Graduate Entry Course, University of Oxford Medical School, UK José Luis Lázaro Martinez, Full Time Professor, Diabetic Foot Unit, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain Rosalyn Thomas, Deputy Head of Podiatry, Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board, Swansea, Wales Susan Tulley, Senior Podiatrist, Mafraq Hospital, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates