The Guyana Diabetes and Foot Care Project: Improved Diabetic Foot Evaluation Reduces Amputation Rates by Two-Thirds in a Lower Middle Income Country.

Background. Type 2 diabetes is the fourth leading cause of death in Guyana, South America. A complex, interprofessional, quality improvement intervention to improve foot and diabetes care was rolled out in two phases.

The Guyana Diabetes and Foot Care Project: a complex quality improvement intervention to decrease diabetes-related major lower extremity amputations and improve diabetes care in a lower-middle-income country.

Julia Lowe and colleagues describe the Guyana Diabetes Foot Care Project, a quality improvement intervention for improving diabetes care in a low-income setting.