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Dr. Yosef Kleinman (1948–2013) was a renowned diabetologist in Israel. During his career as head of the Internal Medicine Section in a Jerusalem Hospital, he established and administrated a diabetic foot clinic for many years and devoted his life to the care of his patients. Personalization of care was one of his mottoes. He was the enthusiastic and passionate promoter of our survey and subsequent development of the algorithm. Unfortunately he did not live to see his work's culmination. This article is dedicated to his memory.

Survey results. A: Box plot showing the mean, median, and IQR of the ranking of the parameters by the experts. The percentages above the columns indicate the % of experts who counted the parameter among the top 3. B: The glycemic targets recommended by the experts for each individual case. Case 1, ACCORD-type patient with severe micro- and macrovascular disease; case 2, nursing home resident with dementia; case 3, elderly patient with new-onset diabetes and long-standing coronary artery disease; case 4, elderly patient with mild dementia and long-standing diabetes treated with basal-bolus insulin regimen; case 5, middle-aged patient with new-onset diabetes; case 6, patient with schizophrenia, noncompliance, and microvascular complications.