Podiatrists Help Prevent Diabetes Complications
Value of Care by Podiatrists: Saving Limbs, Saving Lives
Two recent studies evaluated care by podiatrists for patients with diabetes. These studies demonstrated that compared to other health-care professionals, podiatrists are best equipped to treat lower extremity complications from diabetes, prevent amputations, reduce hospitalizations, and provide savings to our health-care delivery systems.
Providing access to podiatrists is an important component in ensuring quality of care. The growing epidemics of diabetes and obesity and their concurrent complications, along with the aging of the population, are among the many reasons podiatrists are necessary and important members of the physician community and demand for their services is increasing.
Learn more about the prevalence and cost of diabetes in your home state using our interactive map. You can also read the Value of Care by Podiatrists Issue Brief and the full results of the Thomson Reuters Health Study published in the Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association.
APMA encourages legislators and other policymakers to support legislation that increases access to care by podiatrists. For more information, contact advocacy@apma.org.