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Table 3 Participants’ reported pre-training practices and foot assessment resources (n = 246)

From: Improving rural and remote practitioners’ knowledge of the diabetic foot: findings from an educational intervention

Statements

Percent

Practices

 Regularly check the feet of people with diabetes (n = 230)

59

 Regularly document when feet of people with diabetes are checked (n = 224)

71

 Regularly provide foot care education to people with diabetes (n = 223)

41

 Use the 2011 NHMRC risk stratifications [3] (n = 214)

19

 Previously trained in foot assessment (n = 218)

39

Resources available in clinic

 Diabetes foot care brochures (n = 227)

54

 Aboriginal diabetes foot care brochures (n = 223)

22

 10-g monofilament (n = 216)

47