Guidelines for the diagnosis and outpatient management of diabetic peripheral neuropathy (Reprinted from Diabet Med, vol 15, pg 508-514, 1998)

Guidelines on the out-patient management of diabetic peripheral neuropathy have been developed from an international consensus meeting attended by dia betologists, neurologists, primary care physicians, podiatrists and diabete s specialist nurses. A copy of the full document follows this summary (Appe ndix 1), The document arose out of suggestions from Neurodiab, a subgroup o f the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, that there was a need for guidelines developed by consensus? for the outpatient management of pa tients with diabetic neuropathy, An international consensus group was creat ed, chaired by two of the authors. A pilot working party met in 1995, follo wed by a full working party of 39 experts, neurologists and diabetes physic ians (Appendix 2), This complied a draft guideline document which was circu lated to a number of international bodies. After consultation with its memb ers, the final guidelines were approved by Neurodiab (chairman F.A. Gries) towards the end of 1997. (C) 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.