An action research approach to facilitating the adoption of a foot health assessment tool in India

Table 10 Delphi results: Round 5-Additional items to be added to final tool

Proposed additions to the assessment tool	Further details	Acceptance of additional item	% expert consensus	Comments or amendments on previous round
Social to be added to the demographics section	This will include smoking and additionally alcohol due to the high reported incidence of alcoholism by the panel members	Yes	100	Not challenged and therefore included
Filarial to the medical history section		Yes	100
Patient complains of (in relation to the foot condition)	To record patients chief complaint	Yes	100
Classification and stage of diabetic foot	To aid putting patients onto the correct management plan	Yes	100
Management plan	This would include	Yes	88
	Initial Return period
	Next screening
	Treatment (interventions to circle)
	Referral (departments to circle)
	As a quick reference to past treatments
Diagnosis/summary	A small section at the end of the tool to allow some notes to be written about the patients diagnosis	No	88	Not challenged and therefore excluded

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