The Diabetic-Foot Online Clinic Utilization Score (DFOCUS): A calculator for estimating clinic volume and utilization

Publication date: February 2014 Source:Wound Medicine, Volume 4 Author(s): John D. Miller , Nicholas A. Giovinco , Joseph L. Mills , David G. Armstrong The goal of this manuscript is to suggest the utilization of pre-existing population data to provide a functional tool for health systems and administrators to best estimate and plan resource utilization when building or refining a diabetic foot clinic. The system allows one to predict the number of expected risk-category specific visits from a local community in a given year. It is our hope that this system will aid health care providers in administrative planning and overhead. The calculator is hosted at http://www.diabeticcalculator.com as a free to use operation.
Source: Wound Medicine - Category: Journals (General) Source Type: research