Abstract The International Working Group on the Diabetic Foot (IWGDF) has published
evidence‐based guidelines on the prevention and management of diabetic foot disease
since 1999. This guideline is on the use of offloading interventions to promote the healing of
foot ulcers in people with diabetes and updates the previous IWGDF guideline. We followed
the GRADE methodology to devise clinical questions and critically important outcomes in the
PICO format, to conduct a systematic review of the medical‐scientific literature, and to write …

Aims Offloading mechanical tissue stress is arguably the most important of multiple
interventions needed to heal diabetes‐related foot ulcers. This is the 2023 International
Working Group on the Diabetic Foot (IWGDF) evidence‐based guideline on offloading
interventions to promote healing of foot ulcers in persons with diabetes. It serves as an
update of the 2019 IWGDF guideline. Materials and Methods We followed the GRADE
approach by devising clinical questions and important outcomes in the PICO (Patient …