Chairman
B.A. Lipsky, Seattle, USA

Members working group:
A. Berendt, Oxford, UK
J. Embil, Winnipeg, Canada
M. Eneroth, Lund, Sweden
V. Urbancic-Rovan, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Corresponding members:
A. Jirkovska, Prague, Czech Republic
Z. Gulam-Abbas, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
F. de Lalla, Vincenza, Italy
V. Viswanathan, Tamilnadu, India
D. Yue, Sydney, Australia

The aims of the diabetic foot infection document were to provide the state of the art on diagnosis and treatment of the infected diabetic foot. The final document and practical guidelines which were produced should be seen as a consensus report, which was agreed upon by all 62 IWGDF members with their signature at the Consensus/Implementation meeting on May 21st in Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands.

Content Consensus on Diagnosing and Treating the Infected Diabetic Foot
- Introduction
- Diagnosis and clinical presentation
- Microbiological Considerations
- Treatment
- Outcome of treatment
- Key issues requiring research studies
- References
- Figures & tables
- Key messages
- Practical Guidelines on Diagnosing and Treating the Infected Diabetic Foot