Risks to feet in the top end: Outcomes of diabetic foot complications

ANZ Journal of Surgery

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 282-286

  O'Rourke, Ian ^a,b   Heard, Sam ^a   Treacy, John ^a,b   Gruen, Russell ^a,b   Whitbread, Cherie ^b  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ROYAL DARWIN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Complications; Diabetic foot; Outcomes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC FOOT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOOT AMPUTATION; FOOT ULCER; HEALING; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LEG ISCHEMIA; LEG REVASCULARIZATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; RISK; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION;

AMPUTATION; DIABETIC FOOT; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; FEMALE; FOOT; FOOT ULCER; GANGRENE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036094558     PISSN: 14451433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1445-2197.2002.02367.x     Document Type: Article

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